"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"The knowledge of eternal and infinite being is necessarily true."

"The human mind has no free will, but is determined to will this or that by a cause which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on to infinity."

"The intellectual love of God is eternal."

"Emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it."