Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).

Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.

An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.

One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.

One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.