| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Benefits |
| | | Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers. | 1 |
| Benefits like flowers please most when they are fresh. | 2 |
| Benefits oblige, and obligation is thraldom and unrequited obligation perpetual thraldom, which is hateful. Hobbs. | 3 |
| Benefits turn poison in bad minds. Byron. | 4 |
| He is more noble that deserves than he who confers benefits. | 5 |
| He that requites a benefit pays a great debt. | 6 |
| Let him who has bestowed a benefit be silent, let him who has received it tell of it. Seneca. | 7 |
| The last benefit is the most remembered. | 8 |
| There is no benefit so small that a good man will not magnify it. Seneca. | 9 |
| There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. | 10 |
| To receive a benefit is to sell one’s liberty. | 11 | | |
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