“In the balance of the scales of justice it is the ascertained truth which weighs heavier than faith, reason, or revealed religion.”

“Vain man may as well attempt to stop the course of nature, as to do ample justice to this wonderful man!”

— Timothy Dexter《A Pickle for the Knowing Ones》

“But here was a man who had never done anything but good in his life, and was at the bar of justice charged with crime merely because some cold-blooded mercenaries thought he was interfering with their business!”

— Arthur Cheney Train《By Advice of Counsel》

“No man was there more upright than he, nor a greater lover of justice, nor was any woman more regardful of the Deities than she.”

— Ovid《The metamorphoses of Ovid》

“And mind governs reason, and reason obeys mind; and mind is irremovable by fortune, cannot be taken away by informers, cannot be destroyed by disease, cannot have inroads made into it by old age.”

— Plutarch《Plutarch's Morals》

“He is to be pitied, to tell the truth, in his coming into the world as a king, for he is but a man--and having to waste himself on a pack of nonsense instead of sticking to our art, in which he makes good way.”

— Alexandre Dumas《The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty》

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failure.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.”

— Mary Rowlandson《Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson》

“So that when you are in harmony with nature in this respect, you will be elated with some reason; for you will be elated at some good of your own.”

— Epictetus《The Enchiridion》

“The Soul is brought by the Truth to a knowledge of the Heavenly Life (Coelia), and is led, through repentance, to seek forgiveness and to desire a holier life.”

— Edmund Spenser《Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I》

“The friend praying at her side was forgotten, the world had vanished, every law of reason was annihilated, all knowledge was out of her mind--every hard-won conquest of human empiricism was effaced.”

— Wilhelmine von Hillern《On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau》