Worth Quotes

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.

— Richard Fuller

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

— John Cumming