Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
"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."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Darkness, Discovery, Order)
"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Evil, Man, Vice)
"The essence of justice is mercy."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Justice, Mercy)
"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Heart)
"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Life)
"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Faith, History, People, Heart, Skepticism, World)
"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Father, Devil, Lies, Pride, Sin)
"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Poetry, Truth, Heart, Deep, Oracle)
"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Hurt, Will)
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Achievement, Alliance, Endurance, Infinite)
"The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Heart)
"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Soul, Injury, Revenge)
"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Men, Devil)
"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Despair)
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Science, Desire, Fashion)
"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Action, Eternity, Will)
"Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Truth, Soul, Bigotry)
"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."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Men, Courage, Bravery, Cowardice, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Will, World)
"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."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Time, Christian, Earth, Heaven, May, Snow)
"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."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Nature, Man, World)
"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Hypocrisy, Ostentation)
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Gentleman, Vice)