In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
To live in order to reason or to reason in order to live; there is the question.
The Way to see by Faith, is to shut the Eye of Reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
If Passion drives, let Reason hold the reins.
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
And men, whose reason long was blind, from cells of madness unconfined, oft lose whole years of darker mind.
