Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulp — Edwin Percy Whipple

"In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the state, pretension is nothing and power is everything."

"Nothing lives in literature but that which has the vitality of creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old."

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

"A man of letters is often a man with two natures,—one a book nature, the other a human nature, often clash sadly."

"A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man’s tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing."

"Seneca, with two millions out at usury, can afford to chant the praises of poverty; but for our part, we prefer the fine extravagance of that philosopher, who declared "that no man was as rich as all men ought to be."