A biography for Richard Whatelyhasn’t been written yet.
“Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.”
“Happiness is no laughing matter.”
“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”
“In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.”