1 Experience was of no ethical value.
2 It has no psychological value at all.
3 Compared to it there was nothing else of any value.
4 Richard II had a coat, valued at thirty thousand marks, which was covered with balas rubies.
5 It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
6 Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
7 The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.
8 Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.
9 It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
10 It was with an almost cruel joy--and perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place--that he used to read the latter part of the book, with its really tragic, if somewhat overemphasized, account of the sorrow and despair of one who had himself lost what in others, and the world, he had most dearly valued.