Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ashes Copy Share Image
Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with… — 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
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action Copy Share Image
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Chance Copy Share Image
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a… — 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 Excellence Copy Share Image
It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Anomalies Copy Share Image
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Appetite Copy Share Image
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry 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 Bird Copy Share Image
