It is quality than quantity that matters.
价值在于质而不在于量。
——Seneca
——塞涅卡
Merit is worthier than fame．
功绩比名声更有价值。
——Bacon
——培根
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
一个人如何估计他自己，他便有什么样的价值。
——French Proverb
——法国谚语
The worth of good is not known but by experience.
优美的价值从经验中得知。
——Turkish Proverb
——土耳其谚语
What’s ought but as’tis valued?
哪一样东西的价值不是按照人们的估计而决定的?
——Shakespeare
——莎士比亚
Let there be some more test made of my mettle,
Before so noble and so great a figure
Be stamp’d upon it.
当您还没有在我这块顽铁上面打下这样
光荣伟大的印记之前，
最好请您先让它多受一番试验。
——Shakespeare
——莎士比亚
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
只有乞儿才能够计数他的家私。
——Shakespeare
——莎士比亚
Use every man after his desert, and who should’scape whipping.
要是照每一个人应得的名分对待他们；那么谁逃得了一顿鞭子?
——Shakespeare
——莎士比亚
For anything worth having one must pay the price；and the price is always work, patience, love, self—secrifice.
要想获得有价值的事物就必须付出代价，这种代价便是工作、耐性，爱心和自我牺牲。
——John Burroughs
——约翰·巴勒斯
