Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses …

- Edwin Percy Whipple

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

- 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 …

- Edwin Percy Whipple