"This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequ…"

"To be is to be a value."

"The knowledge which we have of God and of ourselves shows us that He is the greatest and the best of beings; and from this it follows that He must have chosen the best possible plan in producing the u…"

"For since all the possibles in the understanding of God laid claim to existence in proportion to their perfections, the actual world, as the resultant of all these claims, must be the most perfect pos…"

"The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truth…"