Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.