Sweet are the uses of adversity:
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just. [ Henry Vaughan ]
The jewel is not to he valued for the cabinet. [ Proverb ]
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge. [ John Alfred Langford ]
Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]
A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure. [ Saadi ]
A day will come when fair dealing will be found a jewel. [ Proverb ]
Silence is a fine jewel for a woman, but it is little worn. [ Proverb ]
If I had not lifted up the stone, you had not found the jewel. [ Proverb ]
The only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. [ James Alfred Langford ]
Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls. [ William Shakespeare ]
Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pleasure is a jewel which will only retain its luster when it is in a setting of work. [ W. M. Strickler ]
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. [ William Shakespeare ]
Woman is the most precious jewel taken from Nature's casket, for the ornamentation and happiness of man. [ Guyard ]
A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart: one is a jewel, the other a treasure. [ Napoleon I ]
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]
Reputation is a jewel which nothing can replace; it is ten thousand times more valuable capital than your diamonds. [ Laboulaye ]
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. [ F. A. Durivage ]
Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]
God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing - the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put a nail. [ Victor Hugo ]
Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]