As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.
Richard WhatelyNeither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
Richard WhatelyThe depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.
Richard WhatelyMan, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.
Richard Whately