The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for… — 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 counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share
