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.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.