“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight,” says Goeth — Edwin Percy Whipple

"The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics."

"Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit."

"A Thought embodied and embrained in fit words, walks the earth a living being."

"Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention."

"Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning."

"But man, being, as I have said, essentially an active being, he must find in activity his joy, as well as his duty and glory. And labor, like everything else that is good, is its own exceeding great reward."