Benefits Quote by Lord Chesterfield

“The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is…

— Aristotle

“Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”

— Lao Tzu

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle…

— Joseph Addison

“The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility”

— Linda Davis

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

— Herman Melville