Character Quote by Edward Young

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

— Abd-el-Kadar

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable…

— Petrarch

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love,…

— William Godwin

“Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure of a…

— Brian Holguin

“I began to understand what bound Pearl to their simple mystery because i felt the same connection. in front of us, all around us,…

— Belinda Jeffrey

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master…

— Jane Porter

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice. “Through”

— Gena Showalter

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice”

— Gena Showalter

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

— Kedar Joshi

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

— Madame de Stael

O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction,…

— Laurence Sterne