Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I love everyone now that I have gray hair.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.