Richard Whately
Richard Whately
Richard Whatelywas an English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 February 1787
good-morning good-day up-early
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
selfish helping-others men
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
flower years nuts
Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
children poison half
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.
men influence manners
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
book heart study
It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.
block rude needs
Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.
memories parent curiosity
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
passion air castles
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
style firsts rhetoric
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.