“Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”
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“Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.”
“...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...”
“This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.”
“We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.”