He is more noble that deserves, than he that confers benefits. [ Proverb ]

Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]

He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them. [ Cicero ]

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all. [ Horace ]

The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit. [ La Bruyere ]

Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! [ Pascal ]

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of it tallow-chandler. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. [ Demosthenes ]