Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind... — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
