The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Percy WhippleWhat does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.
Edwin Percy WhippleTalent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
Edwin Percy WhippleThe very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.
Edwin Percy Whipple