Davis Smith

“Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“> With a rapid and often unconscious impulse, we pass from the trace or the image to God, and then, coming back with new vigor and strength, we retrace the footsteps of the divine Walker. We now find things have a deeper meaning, are magnified; we see in them an episode of an immense spiritual happening. Even while we busy ourselves with some trifling thing, we feel ourselves dependent on truth in comparison with which the mountains are ephemeral; infinite Being and infinite duration enfold us and our study is in very truth, " a study of eternity".”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“Separated from the sphere of divine worship, of the cult of the divine, and from the power it radiates, leisure is as impossible as the celebration of a feast. Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work inhuman.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture