Richard Whately

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

“Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.”

“Happiness is no laughing matter.”

“It is the folly of fools to mourn for what cannot be remedied, but not to prevent what is preventable.”

“Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”

“The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.”

“A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses better than the average of his acquaintances.”

“Let your expenses be such as you can render an account of to yourself.”

“It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.”