It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.
Richard WhatelyHonesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard WhatelyThe depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
Richard Whately