Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.