“I can easily forgive you,” said Old Gray. “Trifles do not worry me. You are only a colt yet, just put to the milk-wagon. You’ll be wiser by the time you get to the plough.”
By noticing small affronts, we give every passer-by the power to vex us; by overlooking them, we take that power away.
THE KING’S ALMONER.
A KING was told that his subjects in a certain city were suffering from hunger and cold and nakedness. Then he said to himself,
“What man is there among them, of prudence and charity, with whom I can intrust supplies for their relief?”