“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“Happiness is invisible and unfelt, when we don't know the meaning of gratitude and thankfulness.”

“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.”

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness”

“Not that we would detract one iota from the benevolence which does exist in humanity; there is both more gratitude and more cause for gratitude than it is the fashion now-a-days to admit: but this we do say, that the obligation is never from those on whom we have a claim. Kindness is always unexpected; and “overcomes us like a summer cloud," exciting our "special wonder" as well as thankfulness.”

“My mother … had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”

“There are people who still know how to thank. Thank you, a simple word that shows gratitude, a gesture in extinctinction.”

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”