A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]

He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.]

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]