reason

The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down.

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best."

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not a fly.

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

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason,-man is not a fly.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.