To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.