Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

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

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.