Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

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.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don