rget what is due to superiority of
rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.--_Madame
Swetchine._

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the
metal better.--_Wycherley._

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a
man.--_Southerne._

~Rashness.~--Rashness and haste make all things insecure.--_Denham._

We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by
overrunning.--_Shakespeare._

~Reading.~--Read, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon
instruction; feast your mind and mortify your flesh; read, and take your
nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of
understanding.--_Congreve._

Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself.--_Milton._

The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of
life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.--_Montesquieu._

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make his
choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But
the war of Pisa was too much for him. He changed his mind, and went to
the oars.--_Macaulay._

Exceedingly well read and profited in strange
concealments.--_Shakespeare._

The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of the
absolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen a
chamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; we
must strain our sinews, as he has strained his; and make firm footing on
the smooth rock for ourselves, by the blood of toil from our own
feet.--_Coleridge._

~Reason.~--Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.--_George Herbert._

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others not to reason at all; and
others to persecute those who do reason.--_Voltaire._

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries I would give no man a reason
upon compulsion.--_Shakespeare._

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not
on possibilities.--_Bolingbroke._

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight
what is holy and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in the
errors it succeeds in discovering; that unfeeling and scornful reason
which insults credulity.--_Joubert._

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think
him so.--_Shakespeare._

Reason 's progressive; instinct is complete: swift instinct leaps; slow
reason feebly climbs.--_Youn