About Richard Whately: Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
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.
