Character Quote by Arthur Helps

Material bullshit comes and will always go, not anything to be taken by, a trick for the eyes that's only for show. Precious metals…

— Tom Sid

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

— Henry Hazlitt

Sometimes we search the world for gold, but what we need is just a hand to hold. Sometimes we let treasure slip away with…

— Melchor Lim

Sometimes when we try to dig for gold, we end up walking away with nothing in our hands, but what if we walked away…

— Anastasia Blanchard

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

— Woodrow Wilson

The most precious thing we have is life. Yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.

— Nikhil Saluja

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be…

— Seneca the Younger

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we…

— Alan Cohen

As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging…

— Herman Melville

“Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on their density,…

— James Wasserman

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

— Henry David Thoreau

Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it…

— Mike Harding