The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share
