You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.Rumi
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.Howard Jacobson
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.Douglas Coupland