No science ever defends its first principles.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.