As we express our gratitude we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.

Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind, yet strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Pride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.