value Quotes

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.