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It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing. - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,

Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."

The reasoning of the strongest is always the best.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

But it is not reason that governs love.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.