Love Quote by Edwin Booth

Booth is smuggling a whole ethic of intimacy into the language of “little things.” Coming from an actor famous for grandeur onstage and tragedy off it, the line reads like a quiet corrective: the real drama isn’t in spectacle, it’s in the humble prop handed from one person to another. He’s talking to the young with the patience of someone who has watched applause evaporate and reputations curdle, leaving behind the small, stubborn evidence of care.

The sentence works because it refuses the usual sentimental shortcut. It doesn’t claim objects are magically meaningful; it insists their value is relational, almost forensic. “Seemingly of no value in themselves” concedes the hard-nosed truth that a trinket is a trinket. Then he flips the ledger: what raises it “above all price” is not rarity or craft, but “love and thoughtfulness” - intention made tangible. That phrase “good heart” is doing heavy lifting, too: it’s an appeal to character, not taste. You don’t cherish the thing; you cherish the person revealed by the thing.

There’s also an implicit lesson about time. “When you are older” isn’t condescension; it’s a warning about what youth mis-measures. Younger people are trained to treat worth as scale: big achievements, big gestures, big stakes. Booth argues that adulthood teaches a different economy, where the smallest token can function like a signature - proof that someone saw you specifically, at a particular moment, and chose to care. In a culture that still confuses attention with affection, that’s a bracingly modern message.