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A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

I care not twopence.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in anything, But so much money as 't will bring?

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

Not worth twopence, .

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

In native worth and honour clad.

'Tis fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

The game is not worth the candle.

I have been worth the whistle. O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.