Worth

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit

The world and its way have a certain worth

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

Anything is better than lies and deceit

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is too short to be small

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.