The future is purchased by the present. [ Johnson ]

Pleasure purchased by pain is injurious. [ Horace ]

Even peace may be purchased at to high a price. [ Franklin ]

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
Which, with pain purchased doth inherit pain. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that has purchased the devil must make the most of him. [ Proverb ]

By wisdom wealth is wen; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. [ Bayard Taylor ]

How hast thou purchased this experience? By my penny of observation. [ William Shakespeare ]

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. [ William Shakespeare ]

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Oh, that estates, degrees, and offices were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor were purchased by the merit of the wearer! [ William Shakespeare ]

There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own. [ Thomas Wilson ]

Of all varieties of fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. Title, indeed, may be purchased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid. [ Burton ]

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]