It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. - Edgar Allan Poe
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.