Quotes on Value
Those things which are dearest to us are those that have cost us most.
-- Michel de Montaigne
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
[A cynic:] A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Midas's Law: Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.
-- John Updike, in: New Yorker