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Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.

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Never value the valueless. The trick is to know how to recognize it.

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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

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Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

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Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

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To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.

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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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