The useful encourages itself, for the multitude 15 produce it, and no one can dispense with it; but the beautiful must be encouraged, for few can set it forth, and many need it. Goethe.
The useless men are those who never change with the years. J. M. Barrie.
The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. Bacon.
The utmost point and acme of honour is not merely in doing no evil, but in thinking none. Ruskin.
The uttered part of a man's life bears to the unuttered, unconscious part of it a small unknown proportion; he himself never knows it, much less do others. Carlyle.
The valiant in himself, what can he suffer? / 20 Or what need he regard his single woes? Thomson.
The valour of a just man is to conquer the flesh, to contradict his own will, ... to contemn the flatteries of prosperity, and inwardly to overcome the fears of adversity. S. Greg.
The valour that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. Hegel.
The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in your being able to bridle him, or, what is better, in his being able to bridle himself. Ruskin.
The value of a thing is its life-giving power. Ruskin.