There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it