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

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.