The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. - Sallust
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. - Lydia M. Child
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. - Peter F. Drucker
It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know. - Edward R. Murrow
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity - Bill Bryson
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. - W. Somerset Maugham
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. - Charles Caleb Colton