What Is Is What Must Be.

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.

We Should Like Nature To Go No Further; We Should Like It To Be Finite, Like Our Mind; But This Is To Ignore The Greatness And Majesty Of The Author Of Things.

These Principles Have Given Me A Way Of Explaining Naturally The Union Or Rather The Mutual Agreement [conformité] Of The Soul And The Organic Body. The Soul Follows Its Own Laws, And The Body Likewise Follows Its Own Laws; And They Agree With Each Other In Virtue Of The Pre-established Harmony Between All Substances, Since They Are All Representations Of One And The Same Universe.

Reality Cannot Be Found Except In One Single Source, Because Of The Interconnection Of All Things With One Another.

I Am Convinced That The Unwritten Knowledge Scattered Among Men Of Different Callings Surpasses In Quantity And In Importance Anything We Find In Books, And That The Greater Part Of Our Wealth Has Yet To Be Recorded.