“Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.”
Alexander Pope
“How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”
Oscar Wilde
“Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold”
Aristotle
“Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current”
Laurence Sterne
“"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.”
Ellis Peters
“A fine genius in his own country, is like a gold in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
