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

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.

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