The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

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

Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.

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

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.