Wit is educated insolence.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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