"The universe is a machine, but a divine machine."

"God is an absolutely perfect being."

"There are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality."

"There is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses, except the intellect itself."

"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…"