It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly. – Richard Whately
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. – Richard Whately
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man. – Richard Whately
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. – Richard Whately
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. – Richard Whately
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ‘What is truth?’ – Richard Whately
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. – Richard Whately
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. – Richard Whately
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Richard Whately
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. – Richard Whately
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light. – Richard Whately
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. – Richard Whately
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. – Richard Whately
