“Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
“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.”
“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.”
“You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.”
“Il est plus facile de paraître digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.”
“It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
