The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conflict Copy Share Image
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Good life Copy Share Image
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Essential 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 Cases 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
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Disposition Copy Share Image
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Devil Copy Share Image
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Goodness Copy Share Image
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Blessing 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 Coal Copy Share Image
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beautiful Copy Share Image
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 Development Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Deepest life Copy Share Image
The true Church is not an institution to be kept apart from the world because the world "is common and unclean," but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin And love 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 Ability 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 Affection 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
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
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 Aprons 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
God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Air 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 Alliances 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 Air Copy Share Image
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bars Copy Share Image
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Achieve Copy Share Image
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Argument Copy Share Image
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conceive Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Brutal Copy Share Image
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Character Copy Share Image
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Appearances Copy Share Image
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action Copy Share Image
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Earth Copy Share Image
