| William Godwin |  Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
William Godwin |
| William Godwin | The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin |
| William H. Gass | Getting even is one reason for writing.
William H. Gass |
| William H. Hunt | There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
William H. Hunt |
| William Hazlitt | The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt |
| William Hazlitt | To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt |
| William James | Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James |
| William Jennings Bryan | There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings Bryan |
| William Kidd | This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
William Kidd |
| William Lloyd Garrison | With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison |
| William Penn | Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn |
| William Penn | Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn |
| William Penn | Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn |
| William Penn | Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn |
| William Penn | Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn |
| William R. Alger | A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William R. Alger |
| William R. Alger | Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William R. Alger |
| William Shakespeare | How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare |
| William Shakespeare | What a piece of work is a 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.
William Shakespeare |
| William Shenstone | There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone |
