Real Worth Quotes

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.