What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of read more

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with read more

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved read more

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need read more

Some values are ... like sugar on the doughnut, legitimate, desirable, but insufficient, apart from the doughnut itself. We need substance as well as frosting.