Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is.… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
