Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is… — 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
Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you 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
