The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
Edwin Percy WhippleEven in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
Edwin Percy WhippleThe wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
Edwin Percy WhippleThe purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
Edwin Percy WhippleIn most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.
Edwin Percy Whipple