Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. — Edwin Percy Whipple Affected Copy Share Image
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple Dignity 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
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Earth Copy Share Image
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy. — Edwin Percy Whipple Advise Copy Share Image
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple Extravagance 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
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
In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own… — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Authorship Copy Share Image
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. — Edwin Percy Whipple Abiding 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
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at… — Edwin Percy Whipple Caves 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
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man;… — Edwin Percy Whipple Bears 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
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Bliss Copy Share Image
Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting… — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in… — Edwin Percy Whipple Belief Copy Share Image
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which… — Edwin Percy Whipple Affluent Copy Share Image
No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts… — Edwin Percy Whipple Activity Copy Share Image
True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms… — Edwin Percy Whipple Age Copy Share Image
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their… — Edwin Percy Whipple Avarice Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Avarice 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
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
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
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
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
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. — Edwin Percy Whipple Every day Copy Share Image
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. — Edwin Percy Whipple Boxes Copy Share Image
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. — Edwin Percy Whipple Close Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. — Edwin Percy Whipple Glorified Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. — Edwin Percy Whipple Rarer Copy Share Image
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. — Edwin Percy Whipple Conclusion Copy Share Image
