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Worth: Quotations from Burning Words

I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be rich, and to gain it by gambling stakes, and madmen's ventures.— H. W. BEECHER

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