Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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

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

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.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.