Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.