“So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”

“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do”

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one”

“That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, [...] Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down into writing.”

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

“If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.”