Careful Words

value (n.)

value (v.)

For it so falls out

That what we have we prize not to the worth

Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,

Why, then we rack the value; then we find

The virtue that possession would not show us

Whiles it was ours.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

J De La Fontaine (1621-1695): The Use of Knowledge. Book viii. Fable 19.