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)
“There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“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)