We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. Every country has the government it deserves. Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections. It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.