There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
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 familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
Edwin Percy WhippleDo we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
Edwin Percy Whipple