“Hear then the Law, Little Sister –
That thou lovest all things in Nature. 
 That thou shalt suffer no person to be harmed by thy hands or in thy mind.  That thou walkest humbly in the ways of men and the ways of the Gods.  Contentment thou shall at last learn through suffering and from long patient years, and from nobility of mind and service. 
For the wise never grow old"
“ From “Lavender Green Magic”    by Andre Norton