He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great…

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are…

— Samuel Johnson

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to…

— David Hume

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in…

— David Hume

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives…

— Og Mandino

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor'…

— Adolf Hitler

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor'…

— Adolf Hitler

“Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some…

— Samuel Johnson

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin…

— Jack Kornfield

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

— John Donne

Uber is hardly the first company to exploit the financial vulnerability of teachers - and the desperation of public schools more broadly - to…

— Alissa Quart

A benefactor is a representative of God.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most…

— J. G. Holland

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor…

— Suzanne Somers

“Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the…

— Dorothy Dunnett