“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

More quotes from Emerson:
“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.