#treasures

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#got #instrumental #longer #treasures

On the dresser was a row of blue-and-white jars that weren't very useful for anything. They'd been left to her mother by an elderly aunt, and she was proud of them because they looked nice but were completely useless. There was little room on the farm for useless things that looked nice, so they were treasured. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#useless #men

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#rich

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #cares #enjoyment #gains #his

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#gold #himself #his #man #solid

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ↗

— Akhenaton

#cabinet #doors #lips #opened #out

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#drudgery #earth #harrowing #mind #necessary

Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#concern #continues #had #little #much

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#reading #treasures #love