Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes (30 Quotes)

There is no happiness in life and there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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.

Motivation'Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Do not ask if a man has been through college ask if a college has been through him if he is a walking university

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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.

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.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.