Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Richard WhatelyWhen men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
Richard WhatelyOf metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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 Whately