Date: 1594
"Goodness is seen with the eye of the understanding. And the light of that eye, is reason."
preview | full record— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
Date: Saturday, April 14, 1750
"[W]e are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude; but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity,...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)