Richard Whately Quotes

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
~ Richard Whately

Abuse;

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
~ Richard Whately

Ancestry;

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
~ Richard Whately

Argument;

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~ Richard Whately

Curiosity;

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
~ Richard Whately

Extravagance;

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
~ Richard Whately

Fraud;

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
~ Richard Whately

Industry;