Nature Does Not Make Leaps.

Our Reasonings Are Grounded Upon Two Great Principles, That Of Contradiction, In Virtue Of Which We Judge False That Which Involves A Contradiction, And True That Which Is Opposed Or Contradictory To The False.

Each Portion Of Matter May Be Conceived Of As A Garden Full Of Plants, And As A Pond Full Of Fishes. But Each Branch Of The Plant, Each Member Of The Animal, Each Drop Of Its Humors, Is Also Such A Garden Or Such A Pond.

I Hold That The Mark Of A Genuine Idea Is That Its Possibility Can Be Proved, Either A Priori By Conceiving Its Cause Or Reason, Or A Posteriori When Experience Teaches Us That It Is In Fact In Nature.

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.

It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted.