146 Quotes by Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

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.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.