64 Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.