Virtue Is The Habit Of Acting According

For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.

Nothing Is More Important Than To See The Sources Of Invention Which Are, In My Opinion More Interesting Than The Inventions Themselves.

If We Could Sufficiently Understand The Order Of The Universe, We Should Find That It Exceeds All The Desires Of The Wisest Men, And That It Is Impossible To Make It Better Than It Is, Not Only As A Whole And In General But Also For Ourselves In Particular, If We Are Attached, As We Ought To Be, To The Author Of All, Not Only As To The Architect And Efficient Cause Of Our Being, But As To Our Master And To The Final Cause, Which Ought To Be The Whole Aim Of Our Will, And Which Can Alone Make Our Happiness.

Music Is The Pleasure The Human Mind Experiences From Counting Without Being Aware That It Is Counting.

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.