Quotes about Treasure
I have affirmed one truth I will carry with me for all time: Apart from the dear Lord Himself, my children and my integrity are my greatest treasure, and having them safe with me now, I am the richest man in the world.
— Frank Peretti
Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.
— Frank Herbert
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
— John Donne
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign Love was as subtly catched, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, Which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, For though 'tis got by chance,'tis kept by art
— John Donne
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness
— St. Augustine
All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.
— CS Lewis
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
I was, indeed, aware that a jealous, ever-waking vigilance, to guard the treasure of our liberty, not only from invasion, but from decay and corruption, was our best wisdom and our first duty.
— Edmund Burke
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
— William Wordsworth
Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.
— William Wordsworth
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
— David O. McKay
It is a merciful Father who strips us when we need to be stripped, as the tree needs to be stripped of its blossoms. He is not finished with us yet, whatever the loss we suffer, for as we loose our hold on visible things, the invisible become more precious—where our treasure is, there will our hearts be.
— Elisabeth Elliot