Confers Quotes

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.