As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
Richard WhatelyNever argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
Richard WhatelyTo follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
Richard WhatelyEven supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Richard Whately