Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Cheerful Copy Share Image
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. — Edwin Percy Whipple Boxes Copy Share Image
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his… — Edwin Percy Whipple Education 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
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Earth Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Ancient Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Eulogy Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but… — Edwin Percy Whipple Combination Copy Share Image
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents… — Edwin Percy Whipple Apples Copy Share Image
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. — Edwin Percy Whipple Accomplishment Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than… — Edwin Percy Whipple Century Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. — Edwin Percy Whipple God Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Army Copy Share Image
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Depends Copy Share Image
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple Defined 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
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. — Edwin Percy Whipple Firsts Copy Share Image
Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence… — Edwin Percy Whipple Actors 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 Active 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
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Appearance 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
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. — Edwin Percy Whipple Every day Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Dignity Copy Share Image
