Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Fanaticism
To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery—into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Neutral men are the devil’s allies.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The public sense is in advance of private practice.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Opportunity, Chance
The worst effect of sin is within, and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Sin
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Self-respect, Beliefs, Loyalty
The angels may have wider spheres of action and nobler forms of duty than ourselves, but truth and right to them and to us are one and the same thing.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Angels
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Sorrow
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The child’s grief throbs against its little heart as heavily as the man’s sorrow; and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum, as the other in striking the springs of enterprise, or soaring on the wings of fame.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Children
Profaneness is a brutal vice.—He who indulges in it is no gentleman.—I care not what his stamp may be in society, or what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.—Despite all his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God’s name in vain, betrays a coarse and brutal will.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Vulgarity, Profanity, Swearing
Morality is the vestibule of religion.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Morality
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world’s heart.—The great doers in history have always been men of faith.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Skepticism, Doubt
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Trials, Adversity
There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Self-Discovery
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases a man.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Vice
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The city is an epitome of the social world.—All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues.—It contains the products of every moral zone and is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but in a moral and spiritual sense.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Cities
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him—if he is a walking university.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Education, Graduation
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it, than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon’s mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Christian
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to, and answered by the living soul of man.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Nature
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Cowardice, Brave
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising.—“Get a reputation, and then go to bed,” is the absurdest of all maxims.—“Keep up a reputation or go to bed,” would be nearer the truth.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Fame
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.—There is such a thing as an honest pride and self-respect.—Though we may be servants of all, we should be servile to none.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Humility
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Fashion
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Modesty
All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
—Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Topics: Nature
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