“To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.”

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

The words ‘Here you can find perfect peace’ can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

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.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

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 present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

What is is what must be.

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Nature does not make leaps.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.