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.

(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which read more

(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle.
(Albany:) O Goneril,
You are not worth the dust which the rude wind
Blows in your face.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

All human things
Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.