Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

Everyday we can't connect but good things connected...