The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

All things in God are spontaneous.

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.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.