And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

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

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

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.

The past is pregnant with the present.

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