Is no return due from a grateful breast? [ Dryden ]

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
A grateful mind is a great mind. [ Seeker ]

To a grateful man give money when he asks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier
For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. [ Keats ]

If I only have will to be grateful, I am so. [ Seneca ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]

The grateful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]

Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind. [ Pope ]

A grateful heart is the mainspring of happiness. [ Ossian Lang ]

He that is grateful would recompense if he could. [ Proverb ]

He that gives to a grateful man puts out to usury. [ Proverb ]

You may believe anything that is good of a grateful man. [ Proverb ]

A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]

A single grateful thought towards fiea%-en is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]

A single grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. [ Colton ]

The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the most grateful incense to living worth. [ W. Mavor ]

A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. [ Seneca ]

Being happy - being appreciative, being grateful - is not altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent upon outward circumstances. Not at all. [ Ossian Lang ]

Mothers! endeavor to educate your daughters; tram them up to be faithful, grateful, dutiful daughters, and they will not fail to be excellent wives and mothers. [ Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey ]

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. [ Saadi ]

Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. [ Feltham ]

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]

Cheeriness is a thing to be more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]