attain quotes

Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

- Richard Hooker
  Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

   Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

- Anthony Trollope
  Prime Minister to Phineas. The Prime Minister, ch.68.