Richard Whately May Quotations

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.