"It is a bad thing to be a heretic, but it is worse to be a schismatic."

"Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity."

"Everything that is possible demands to exist."

"I am so much for peace that I would rather be silent than say something which might disturb it."

"The passing condition which involves and represents a multiplicity in the unity, or in the simple substance, is nothing else than what is called perception. This should be carefully distinguished from…"