Esteem

Famous quotes containing the word esteem:

“The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is hard to love those we do not truly esteem; but it is no less so to love those we esteem a great deal more than ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)