Demonstration Quote by Grover Cleveland

“Instead, Franklin found “a good and faithful helpmate” who was frugal and practical and devoid of pretensions, traits that he later noted were far…

— Walter Isaacson

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there…

— Virginia Woolf

“Wesley taught me the Way of the Owl. In the human world your value as a person is often intrinsically linked to your wealth…

— Stacey O'Brien

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

— Sophocles

“It seemed so natural, receiving it, watching others receive it, assuming that the approval of others determined our worth. Then one day we found…

— Lee Goff

“You don’t have to be rich to leave a positive legacy; you don’t have to be intelligent, famous, powerful or even particularly well organised,…

— Hugh Mackay

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the…

— Lionel Shriver

“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each bring to…

— Shirley Houston

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that…

— Herbie Hancock

“Despite the pecuniary spirit of Poor Richard’s sayings and the penny-saving reputation they later earned Franklin, he did not have the soul of an…

— Walter Isaacson