If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

Glory be to God for all things!

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.