Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Richard WhatelyThe word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Richard WhatelyThe love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.
Richard WhatelyAs an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.
Richard Whately