Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.