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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.