Man's true, genuine estimate,
The grand criterion of his fate,
Is not - Art thou high or low?
Did thy fortune ebb or flow? [ Burns ]

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. [ George W. Curtis ]

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by Its advantages. [ Ovid ]

In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]

The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. [ Carlyle ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]