This is the primary value of education: it is not that books are important, but that men arethe men who have swayed historyand books tell of such men.

The man who adds to his technical skill, and his knowledge of the market, the power of control adds great force and value to his work.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

God is the only real appraiser, and we never get back a money-value for our soul's toil.

I think the average Frenchman is intelligent, but I don't think the vote of the man in the street can have as much value as that of a man who has had not only a good education but who has been accustomed always to hear certain principles of law and order held up as rules for the guidance of his own life as well as other people's.

When Mr. W.H. Smith became a partner in 1846, at the age of twenty-one, it was valued at over £80,000.

Their individual value, as they go out into the world, is to set right values on social customs and decrees; to establish the law of freedom in the home; to lead men and women out of the thraldom of ignorance, vulgarity, hearsay, and "style," into simplicity of living and a sane scale of household expense.

There will be no money to squander, and women to a unit will stand behind those men who think a recreation field is of more value than a race track.

Readers should be chosen for their literary value from the recognised children's classics, such as the Peter Rabbit type, Alice in Wonderland, Water-Babies, and not made up for the sake of reading practice.

No number of picture talks, oral compositions, or observations can compete in real value with these games, because behind them was a purpose or need for language that compelled the greatest efforts.

She has, indeed, achieved a labor of world-wide value by completing the "big ditch" between the Oceans.

But she valued above all aristocratic or royal recognition the good opinion of earnest and devoted Christian workers.

Least of all is the manliness you have named, likely to be valued among a people who have been put into men's clothes before they are out of leading-strings.

It is true that he was superficial with tin-tags and did not know the difference in value between a Steam Engine tagthe rarest of them alland a common Climax, but we forgave him as one forgives a friend who is ignorant of Persian pottery.

May it not be that science, while delving among the wrecks of vanished ages, may stumble upon some new principle, or combination of the elements of which these old rocks are composed, that shall give them a value beyond that of the richest lowlands, and make them the centre of a dense and cultivated population?" "Your question," answered Spalding, "is suggestive.

A pen and ink were brought to him, and he wrote with some difficulty on a slip of paper, that he firmly hoped he had not failed in his attempt to destroy himself, for life was of no value without honour.

True, the plantain is by no means as nourishing as wheat: which reduces the actual difference between their value per acre to twenty-five to one.

The fall of Syracuse introduced many works of priceless value into Rome; but it was from Athens, Delphi, Corinth, Elis, and other great centres of art that the richest treasures were brought.

Education, in the last analysis, is getting the highest intellectual value out of one's environment and opportunities.

To be able to say of Mr. Llewylln Jones that he is sixty per cent masculine and forty per cent feminine, or of Mrs. Worthington that she is seventy per cent feminine and thirty per cent masculine would be of the utmost value under all kinds of circumstances.

in value within the last three years.

I thought I noticed when we were in the room that he locked the door; however, I had nothing of any value about me except the £10,000, which I was ready to give him.

The iron road in war is an army's jugular vein, and each mile added to its length was of enormous value during the advance.

Each grain was accordingly treasured and valued like a grain of gold, and the judge cautioned the boy to be careful in tying the bag; wheat in the grain is a slippery thing to handle, and he wished none of this to be lost.

The following extract from the ancient laws of Wales will show the value that was there set upon these trees, and also how the consecrated yew of the priests had risen in value over the reputed sacred mistletoe of the Druids: "A consecrated yew, its value is a pound.