Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
Richard WhatelyEloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.
Richard WhatelyA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard WhatelyIt is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
Richard Whately