The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.
Edwin Percy WhippleThe bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Edwin Percy WhippleIn activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
Edwin Percy WhippleA composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.
Edwin Percy Whipple