Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
Richard WhatelyIn our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Richard WhatelyTo be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
Richard WhatelyNot in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.
Richard Whately