I pray thee, mock me not.' God knows I did not mock her, for her words were wisdom.

So did it work upon me that, after many days, I got for the lad his own again, and there he is happier, and his mother happier, than the Governor in his palace.

Later I did learn some truths from the shepherd, the messenger, and the beggar, and the woman with the child; but chiefly from the woman and the child.

The material value has no relation to the value each sets upon that which is his own.

Behind this feeling lies the strength of the world.