When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

Love follows knowledge.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.