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 WhatelyVices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.
Richard WhatelyThe first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
Richard Whately