We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.