A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — 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
