It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

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

The past is pregnant with the present.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

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