Reverence (Ehrfurcht), which no child brings 30 into the world along with him, is the one thing on which all depends for making a man in every point a man. Goethe.
Reverie is the Sunday of thought. Amiel.
Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bordered as by a natural frontier. Victor Hugo.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. Coleridge.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. Shelley.
Revocate animos, mœstumque timorem / Mittite—Resume 35 your courage, and cast off desponding fear. Virg.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Napoleon.
Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. Wendell Phillips.
Revolutions never go backward. Wendell Phillips.
Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter regem. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum—A king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not the kingdom for the sake of the king. His power is only for the public good. L.