To us probability is the very guide of life.
Joseph Butler (1692 - 1752)
Source: Preface to Analogy.
Contributed by: Zaady
To John Wesley: Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.
Source: Wesley, Works, xiii.449
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Source: Fifteen Sermons. No.7, § 16