As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.


Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley (ed. 1856)

Richard Whately Quotes

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without...

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without...

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without...

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without...