There is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

It is our best work that God wants not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Beauty is composed of an eternal invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine and a relative element which might be either by turns or all at once period fashion moral passion.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.