“And that these directories and yearbooks constituted the most valuable and moving library you could imagine, as their pages listed people, things, vanished worlds, to which they alone bore witness.”

“Many people don’t realise just what a valuable lifeline libraries can be.”

“It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.”

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.”

“[They] revealed to me the most important truth concerning human life. Which is that a shared, a loyal, love between two people is the most beautiful, the most numinous, the most valuable thing of all.”

“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die.”

“There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.”

“Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.”

“Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page,
A woman's heart, of feelings, thoughts, that make
The atmosphere in which her spirit moves;”

“Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”