Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Let reason govern desire.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.