. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.
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.