Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, dedication.

Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs15:16^17.

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew19:21^2.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 4:7.

All true histories contain instruction; though in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  Agnes Grey, ch.1.

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!

-Burns, Robert
  'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 5.

Hethat firstcries out stop thief, is often hethat has stolen the treasure.

-Congreve,William
  Scandal to Mrs Foresight. Love for Love, act 3, sc.14.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure; Rich the treasure; Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain.

-Dryden,John
  Alexander's Feast, l.57^60.

   Be riche in patience, gif thow in gudis be pure; Quho levis mirry, he levis michtely: Without glaidnes availis no tresour.

-Dumas, Alexandre, pe'  re
early 16c 'No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes', l.22^4.

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake'  d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

-Dyer, Sir Edward
  'In Praise of a Contented Mind'.

Annapurna, towhichwehadgone empty-handed, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our lives. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins. There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

-Herzog, Maurice
  Quoted in  Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (translated by Nea Morin and Janet  Adam Smith).

Though ye take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left: ye cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

-Otway,Thomas
  Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's lifewhenhehas a ragingdesiretogosomewhereand dig for hidden treasure.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.