Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right
Sir, I have two cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.
Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.