Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
As a precious metal, silver is also money.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.