Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. — Edwin Percy Whipple Epigram Copy Share Image
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. — Edwin Percy Whipple Conclusion Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. — Edwin Percy Whipple Rarer Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents. — Edwin Percy Whipple Egotism Copy Share Image
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash… — Edwin Percy Whipple Authorship Copy Share Image
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. — Edwin Percy Whipple Failure Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Cheerful Copy Share Image
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with… — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple Authorship Copy Share Image
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what… — Edwin Percy Whipple Character Copy Share Image
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Backbone Copy Share Image
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Character Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Antithesis Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Branding Copy Share Image
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Affection Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Book Copy Share Image
The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure… — Edwin Percy Whipple Chiefs Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Battle Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Absurd Copy Share Image
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Beautiful Copy Share Image
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Dignity Copy Share Image
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Eulogy Copy Share Image
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known. — Edwin Percy Whipple Inspirational Copy Share Image
