The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse.
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.
