Date: 1725

A child may be governed Reason and her Father, unless she (like the rest of the "ungovernable Sex") think her own will her best adviser

— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)

Date: 1725

"Let reason rule the sallies of the mind"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1725

In composition "Let sov'reign reason dictate from her throne"

— Pitt, Christopher (1699-1748)

Date: 1726

"'Twould be a bad World with most of us, if Reason were always to rule."

— Southerne, Thomas (1659-1746)

Date: 1726, 1781

In Bedlam a "shiv'ring Monarch keeps his awful Court, / And far and wide, as boundless Thought can stray, / Extends a vast imaginary Sway"

— Fitzgerald, Thomas (1695-1752)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Excited, thus, the smother'd fire, at length, / Bursts into blaze, and burns, with open strength: / That image, which, before, but sooth'd the mind, / Now lords it there, and rages, unconfined"

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

Date: September 10, 1726

"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms."

— Arbuckle, James (d. 1742)

Date: 1726, 1753

"Divinely proud of independent will, / Prince of your passions, live their sovereign still."

— Hill, Aaron (1685-1750); Thomson, James (1700-1748)

Date: 1726

"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"

— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

Date: 1726

"Their proper country, says Philander, is the breast of a good man: for I think they are most of them the figures of Virtues."

— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)