Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.