Feb 1, 1787 - Oct 8, 1863
English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
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Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
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.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
He is only exempt from failures who makes no effort.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
\'Honesty is the best policy,\' but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to dMen are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
