In Reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing, as they shine: 'The hand that made us is divine.'

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

For man, therefore, the life according to reason is best and pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is man.

-Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, bk.10, ch.7,1178 (translated by Sir David Ross).

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light† He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.1.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule allöthat is myself.

-Aung San Suu Kyi
c.  AD 170^180  Meditations, bk.2, no.2 (translated by M Staniforth).

I loved thee once; I'll love no moreö Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?

-Aytoun, Sir Robert
'To an Inconstant Mistress', stanza1.

[Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting theshows ofthingstothedesires ofthemind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.4, section 2.

Only reasoncan convinceus ofthosethreefundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Civilization, ch.5.

  Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells And sights, before the dark of reason grows.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Summoned By Bells, ch.4.

   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah1:18.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'The Argument'.

I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my reason to an O altitudo!

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 9.

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Abt Vogler'.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

-Wilson
  In the Observer, 23  Jul.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tells me I ought to do.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

-Burke, Edmund
  Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

L'homme se trouve devant l'irrationnel. Il sent en lui son de¤ s ir de bonheur et de raison. L'absurde na|"t de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence de¤  raisonnable du monde. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

-Camus, Albert
  Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus,1955),'The Absurd Walls'.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the one who has lost everything except his reason.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Orthodoxy, ch.2.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

-Coke, Sir Edward
  The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, bk.1, ch.10, section 80.

Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partage¤  e: car chacun pense en e"  tre si bien pourvu, que ceux me"  me qui sont les plus difficiles a'   contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en de¤  sirer plus qu'ils ont. En quoi il n'est pas vraisemblable que tous se trompent; mais pluto" t  cela te¤  moigne que la puissance de bien juger et distinguer le vrai d'avec le faux, qui est proprement ce qu'on nomme le bon sens ou la raison, est naturellement e¤  gale en tous les hommes. Good sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it, that even those who are hardest to satisfy in every other way do not usually desire more of it than they already have. In this matter it is not likely that everybody is mistaken; it rather goes to show that the power of judging well and distinguishing truth from falsehood, which is what we properly mean by good sense or reason, is naturally equal in all men.

-Descartes, Rene¤
  Discours de la me¤  thode (Discourse on Method),1st discourse (translated by G E M  Anscombe and Peter Geach).