I've been re-reading a collection of W.H. Auden's essays called "The Shield of Persius" (it's part of a larger collection entitled "The Dyer's Hand"). Auden really was one of the greatest minds of the last century (and one of the greatest English-speaking thinkers ever), and I thought I would pass on a few grains of his wisdom from this particular collection:
"Debt or credit cannot be measured in quantitative terms; a relation between two persons is just if both take no more than they need and give as much as they can, and unjust if either takes more or gives less than this."
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