The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.