146 Quotes by Richard Whately

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.