Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
Edwin Percy WhippleHumor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
Edwin Percy WhippleCharacter is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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 WhippleThe great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
Edwin Percy Whipple