It seems that you can reason away any truth, any fact, any ideal.

Perhaps you can banish God by reason, or defend crime by reason; reason, I shall not be surprised to learn, can make all things possible or impossible.

But--does reason hush that strange speaking voice in you, which we Jews call conscience?
Tell me; have you reasoned till it ceases to rebuke you ?" "Ah, how hard you are to accommodate," Amaryllis smiled.

"I mean to show you how you can abide here.

I can ask no more of John.
Philadelphus alone is master of your fate.