Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. Ward Beecher.
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. Johnson.
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Dickens.
Reflection dissolves reverie and burns her delicate wings. Amiel.
Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; 5 conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. Emerson.
Reform is not joyous but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men. Carlyle.
Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work; kindling ever new light by incalculable contagion; spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide; doing good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil. Carlyle.
Reformers (Reformatorische Geister) do not step into the arena amid a flourish of drums and trumpets; they must make their debut rather under the badge of the cross, and have been cradled at their birth in a manger; poverty and a humble pedigree is all their inheritance, and their childhood is never touched or shone upon by the glitter (Glanze) of the world. K. Fischer.
Reforms are generally most unpopular where most needed. Martin.
Refricare cicatricem—To open a wound, or an 10 old sore, afresh.