Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
Richard WhatelyEven supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
Richard WhatelySome men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Richard WhatelyThe heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but it demanded none. The very pretension to truth, the very demand of faith, were characteristic distinctions of Christianity.
Richard Whately