Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason