Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.