What is jewel?

Famous quotes containing the word jewel:

    “They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 11:22.

    “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
    Is the immediate jewel of their souls.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)