Thought for Today ~

After Benjamin Franklin had received a letter thanking him for having done a kindness, he replied:
"As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for mankind are all of a family.  As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts."

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
~ Albert Einstein


"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
~Abraham Lincoln

"The best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
~ William Wordsworth

The Treasure Chest , Charles L. Wallis editor, Harper & Row.1965.