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

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

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

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.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

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.

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

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.

It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.