“Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.”

“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”

“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”

“Gold is required in large quantities only in a society which produces a very large economic surplus and can afford to transform part of that surplus into gold for prestige purposes (as in India) or into coinage and money to promote capitalism”

“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”

“Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”

“Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up”

“Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely.”