In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
Richard WhatelyNothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
Richard WhatelyIt 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 WhatelyAs one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Richard Whately