Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - This is was commonly mistakely to be discribed as Laozi's, but this is a rumor.

The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, not the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions.

When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart. [References 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats]

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

...I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion,-if any effectual good is t…

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent