Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.
Richard WhatelyThe first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
Richard WhatelyHabits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.
Richard Whately