“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
“yea dost thou fall upon thy face? thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit!”
“Thou hast ravished my heart.”
“Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.”
“Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations torise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also waitnot for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty;nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like theSun.”
“Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.”