To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23