The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

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.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose