Quotes by Richard Whately

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

“Happiness is no laughing matter.”

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

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

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

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

“It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.”

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

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

“He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.”

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”

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

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

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.”

“He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.”

“Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different...”

“In the present day, however, the province of Rhetoric, in the widest acceptation that would reckoned admissible, comprehends all Composition in Prose; in the narrowest sense, it would be limited to...”

“Cicero is hardly to be reckoned … for he delighted so much more in the practice, than in the theory, of his art, that he is perpetually drawn off from the rigid philosophical analysis of its princi...”

“Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any arti...”

“No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetori...”