For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.