Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.