Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.