There Is Nothing Without Reason.

God, Possessing Supreme And Infinite Wisdom, Acts In The Most Perfect Manner, Not Only Metaphysically, But Also Morally Speaking, And ... With Respect To Ourselves, We Can Say That The More Enlightened And Informed We Are About God's Works, The More We Will Be Disposed To Find Them Excellent And In Complete Conformity With What We Might Have Desired.

The World Is Not A Machine. Everything In It Is Force, Life, Thought.

There Are Two Famous Labyrinths Where Our Reason Very Often Goes Astray. One Concerns The Great Question Of The Free And The Necessary, Above All In The Production And The Origin Of Evil. The Other Consists In The Discussion Of Continuity, And Of The Indivisibles Which Appear To Be The Elements Thereof, And Where The Consideration Of The Infinite Must Enter In.

But It Is The Knowledge Of Necessary And Eternal Truths Which Distinguishes Us From Mere Animals, And Gives Us Reason And The Sciences, Raising Us To Knowledge Of Ourselves And God. It Is This In Us Which We Call The Rational Soul Or Mind.

It Is Necessary To Believe That The Mixture Of Evil Has Produced The Greatest Possible Good: Otherwise The Evil Would Not Have Been Permitted.