Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

    To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life—I wrote this some years ago—that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Tonight, grave sir, both my poore house, and I
    Doe equally desire your companie:
    Not that we thinke us worthy such a ghest,
    But that your worth will dignifie our feast,
    Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil—viz. the deadly atheism which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist; and that the attainment of a high ideal is a hopeless chimera.
    Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910)