Benefit

Famous quotes containing the word benefit:

    “We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “You say that you do not succeed much. Does it concern you enough that you do not? Do you work hard enough at it? Do you get the benefit of discipline out of it? If so persevere. Is it a more serious thing than to walk a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours? Do you get any corns by it? Do you ever think of hanging yourself on account of failure?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)