benefit quotes

Hashenot a rogue'sface?†a haunting-look tome†has a damned Tyburn-face, without the benefit o'the Clergy.

-William Congreve
  Of Sir Sampson. Love for Love, act 2, sc.7.

Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

-Honorius of Autun
c.1130  Gemma  Animae, prologue. English poet  and journalist.  His collection Odes and Addresses (1825) was followed by several volumes of humorous verse and political poems such as 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843).

America came up with the idea of therapeutic avant- gardism, and built museums in its name. These temples stood on two pillars. The first was aestheticism† The second was the familiar one of social benefit.

- Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
  Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of  America.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit, and the fact of living in a society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest. That conduct consists†in each person bearing his share of the labours and sacrifices incurred for defending the society or its members from injuryand molestation.

-John Stuart Mill
  On Liberty.