Wit Implies Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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