Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and upon that account must necessarily be eternal. Cic.
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. Montaigne.
Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honour and duty. T. Edwards.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in 20 the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. Goldsmith.
Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice. Buckle.
Whatever these two men (the Carlyles, father and son) touched with their hands in honest toil became sacred to them, a page out of their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind of religion they put into their work. John Burroughs.
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that a word, if it must alter, will only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but to unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. Goethe.
Whatever you are, be a man. Pr.
Whatever you may think now, they (the deeds 25 of each day) are only biding their time; and when you are weak and at their mercy, when the world you fancied you were beyond, has leisure to hear their story and scoff at you, they will come forward and tell all the bitter tale. Disraeli to young men.
Whatso we have done is done, and for us annihilated, and ever must we go and do anew. Carlyle.