When I am inclined to complain about having worked so many years and
taken nothing but debt, though I feel the want of money so continually
(much more, doubtless, than I ought to feel it), let me remember that I
come in free, gratis, to the work of hundreds and thousands of better men
than myself who often were much worse paid than I have been. If a man’s
true self is his karma—the life which his work lives but which he knows
very little about and by which he takes nothing—let him remember at least
that he can enjoy the karma of others, and this about squares the
account—or rather far more than squares it. [1883.]