To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to read more

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the read more

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Let but the commons hear this testament,
Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read,
And read more

Let but the commons hear this testament,
Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read,
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,
And dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it as a rich legacy
Upon their issue.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., read more

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam
mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]