The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.