No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.

Reasoning draws a conclusion but does not make the conclusion certain unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical subject think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Accuracy is in every case advantageous to beauty and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.