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

We live in the best of all possible worlds

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

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.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.