Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

Desire is the very essence of man

Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.