There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.