Fyodor Dostoevsky. Idiot (№ 204887)

...throwing your "charity", your good deed in whatever form, you are giving a part of your personality and take into yourself part of another; you are mutually attached one to another; some more attention and you are rewarded already with the knowledge of the most unexpected discoveries. You will certainly be to look at last at your business as a science; it takes all your life and can fill a lifetime. On the other hand, all your thoughts, all you abandoned seeds may be already forgotten you, come and grow; obtained from you will transfer to another. And why you know what you'll have in the future resolution of the fate of mankind? If knowledge and a whole lifetime of this work will lift you up finally to the fact that you'll be throwing a huge seed, to leave the world a legacy of a vast thought...