We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Joseph Rudyard KiplingreasonselectionexcuseCopy this quote
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
“Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful