The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Eulogy Copy Share Image
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor… — Edwin Percy Whipple Aspect 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
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious… — Edwin Percy Whipple Body Copy Share Image
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics. — Edwin Percy Whipple Contact 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
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. — Edwin Percy Whipple Abiding 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
Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Delight Copy Share Image
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm… — Edwin Percy Whipple Character 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
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Absurdity Copy Share Image
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory… — Edwin Percy Whipple Argument 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
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Anxious 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Adventure 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
The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a… — Edwin Percy Whipple Brother 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
