Values

Once a man unearthed in his field a marble statue of great beauty. And

he took it to a collector who loved all beautiful things and offered it

to him for sale, and the collector bought it for a large price. And they

parted.

And as the man walked home with his money he thought, and he said to

himself, “How much life this money means! How can any one give all this

for a dead carved stone buried and undreamed of in the earth for a

thousand years?”

And now the collector was looking at his statue, and he was thinking,

and he said to himself, “What beauty! What life! The dream of what a

soul!--and fresh with the sweet sleep of a thousand years. How can any

one give all this for money, dead and dreamless?”