64 Quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart’s anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.

Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized, – spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.