Whatsoever is, is in God.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.