Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

A Large Portion Of Human Beings Live Not So Much In Themselves As In What They Desire To Be. They Create What Is Called An Ideal Character, In An Ideal Form, Whose Perfections Compensate In Some Degree For The Imperfections Of Their Own.

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