"I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x."

"The doctrine that the world is governed by perfection was introduced to exclude the arbitrary will of God."

"It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things."

"There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance."

"The happiness of a fool would be unbearable."