What contribution -- grand or modest, private or public -- do you have to make to the greater good of all?
And don't forget the many museums that go to great lengths to attract and educate the public, free or at modest cost, or the private collectors who lend art to museum exhibitions or open their own museums.
Her life was modest and private, and she was well loved.
A day or so later, a friend received a farewell letter from Zweig, asking that his burial "should be as modest and private as possible".
Josie Rourke, artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre, says: "She is just a modest and private person who never blows her own trumpet".
Overall, Nadal emerges as a decent, modest, intensely private man still struggling to escape from the shadow cast by his domineering uncle.
Known to the world for his roles in the Matrix, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, this modest, intensely private man has also been the linchpin in dozens of smaller Australian independent films, as Luke Buckmaster's rewatching film blog reminds us on a weekly basis.
The event was a relatively intimate affair at a modest private residence, a sit-down dinner for 50 or so people.
While public debt is relatively modest, private debt has soared to 227 percent of gross domestic product, according to official statistics.
He is illiterate, but he is now paying for his children to attend a modest private school in their village.
