Everything That Is Possible Demands To Exist.

If We Could Sufficiently Understand The Order Of The Universe, We Should Find That It Exceeds All The Desires Of The Wisest Men, And That It Is Impossible To Make It Better Than It Is, Not Only As A Whole And In General But Also For Ourselves In Particular, If We Are Attached, As We Ought To Be, To The Author Of All, Not Only As To The Architect And Efficient Cause Of Our Being, But As To Our Master And To The Final Cause, Which Ought To Be The Whole Aim Of Our Will, And Which Can Alone Make Our Happiness.

I Do Not Believe That A World Without Evil, Preferable In Order To Ours, Is Possible; Otherwise It Would Have Been Preferred. It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted. The Combination Of All The Tendencies To The Good Has Produced The Best; But As There Are Goods That Are Incompatible Together, This Combination And This Result Can Introduce The Destruction Of Some Good, And As A Result Some Evil.

For Since It Is Impossible For A Created Monad To Have A Physical Influence On The Inner Nature Of Another, This Is The Only Way In Which One Can Be Dependent On Another.

Each Portion Of Matter May Be Conceived Of As A Garden Full Of Plants, And As A Pond Full Of Fishes. But Each Branch Of The Plant, Each Member Of The Animal, Each Drop Of Its Humors, Is Also Such A Garden Or Such A Pond.

Philosophy Consists Mostly Of Kicking Up A Lot Of Dust And Then Complaining That You Can't See Anything.