I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.