This is the highest learning,
The hardest and the best--
From self to keep still turning,
And honor all the rest.
If one should break the letter,
Yea, spirit of command,
Think not that thou art better;
Thou may'st not always stand!
We all are weak--but weaker
Hold no one than thou art;
Then, as thou growest meeker,
Higher will go thy heart.
--George Macdonald.
In proud humility a pious man went through the field;
The ears of corn were bowing in the wind, as if they kneeled;
He struck them on the head, and modestly began to say,
"Unto the Lord, not unto me, such honors should you pay."
--From the Persian.