Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share
