I Was Convinced That Our

Wonder Is The First Of All The Passions.

In Order To Improve The Mind, We Ought Less To Learn, Than To Contemplate.

Before Examining This More Carefully And Investigating Its Consequences, I Want To Dwell For A Moment In The Contemplation Of God, To Ponder His Attributes In Me, To See, Admire, And Adore The Beauty Of His Boundless Light, Insofar As My Clouded Insight Allows. Believing That The Supreme Happiness Of The Other Life Consists Wholly Of The Contemplation Of Divine Greatness, I Now Find That Through Less Perfect Contemplation Of The Same Sort I Can Gain The Greatest Joy Available In This Life.

Perfect Numbers Like Perfect Men Are Very Rare.

Even Those Who Have The Weakest Souls Could Acquire Absolute Mastery Over All Their Passions If We Employed Sufficient Ingenuity In Training And Guiding Them.