Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. — Edwin Percy Whipple Affected Copy Share Image
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash… — Edwin Percy Whipple Authorship 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
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Authorship Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Antithesis 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
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
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Branding 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
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
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
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade… — Edwin Percy Whipple Affection 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
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain. — Edwin Percy Whipple Fountain Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. — Edwin Percy Whipple Use 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
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
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Backbone Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with… — Edwin Percy Whipple Action Copy Share Image
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps. — Edwin Percy Whipple Conclusion Copy Share Image
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known. — Edwin Percy Whipple Inspirational Copy Share Image
