Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing… — 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
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
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was… — 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
