A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
Edwin Percy WhippleEvery style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
Edwin Percy WhippleMirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.
Edwin Percy WhippleHumor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.
Edwin Percy Whipple