We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value—a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)