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?

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.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

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

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

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.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.