Virtue Is The Habit Of Acting According

Nothing Is Accomplished All At Once, And It Is One Of My Great Maxims, And One Of The Most Completely Verified, That Nature Makes No Leaps: A Maxim Which I Have Called The Law Of Continuity.

The Past Is Pregnant With The Present.

It Has Long Seemed Ridiculous To Me To Suppose That The Nature Of Things Has Been So Poor And Stingy That It Provided Souls Only To Such A Trifling Mass Of Bodies On Our Globe, Like Human Bodies, When It Could Have Given Them To All, Without Interfering With Its Other Ends.

Although The Whole Of This Life Were Said To Be Nothing But A Dream And The Physical World Nothing But A Phantasm, I Should Call This Dream Or Phantasm Real Enough, If, Using Reason Well, We Were Never Deceived By It.

Natural Religion Itself, Seems To Decay Very Much. Many Will Have Human Souls To Be Material: Others Make God Himself A Corporeal Being.