Worth

“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

“I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.”

“I care not twopence.”

“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”

“'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and allBut so much money as 't will bring?”

“This was the penn'worth of his thought.”

“"Ain't worth a Bean," she said.”

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”

“In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth — so much money.”

“We have to prove our worth and justify our existence anew each day.”

“Dignity and rank and riches are all corruptible and worthless; but moral character has an immortality that no sword-point can destroy.”

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

“Anything worth doing is worth 10.”

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”

“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;The rest is all but leather or prunello.”

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

“I would that I were low laid in my grave;I am not worth this coil that's made for me.”

“I have been worth the whistle. O Goneril.Blows in your face.”

“Let there be some more test made of my metal,Be stamped upon it.”

“Each man is worth more than the whole of humanity, nor will it do to sacrifice each to all save in so far as all sacrifice themselves to each.”

“The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. (The Devil and Shakespeare).”

“You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.”

“Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).”

“He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.”

“Too good for great things and too great for good.”

“In native worth and honour clad.”

“Of whom the world was not worthy.”

“'Tis fortune gives us birth,But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.”

“This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.”

“An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.”

“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;The rest is all but leather and prunello.”

“O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?”

“Your worthiness is the result of chance.”

“A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.”

“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”

“All human thingsOf dearest value hang on slender strings.”

“But though that place I never gain, I will be worthy of it.”

“It is easy enough to be prudent,Is the one that resists desire.”