A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.
Edwin Percy WhippleThe 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 WhippleGod is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
Edwin Percy WhippleThere is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
Edwin Percy WhippleWe all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
Edwin Percy Whipple