Famous quotes containing the word bestow:
“The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Corinthians, 13:3-4.