Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions,
may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of the
few.--_Goethe._
Reason is, so to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, seeking only
to preserve order. In life itself a cold arithmetician who adds up our
follies. Sometimes, alas! only the accountant in bankruptcy of a broken
heart.--_Heinrich Heine._
Sure He that made us with such large discourse, looking before and
after, gave us not that capability and godlike reason to rust in us
unused.--_Shakespeare._