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It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I don't feel I'm even worthy of a normal amount of value.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.