146 Quotes by Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.