Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current

I proved the critics wrong. And now we have the gold.

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.