I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

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

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

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.