Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth Copy Share Image
Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conditions 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
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Doe Copy Share Image
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Darkness Copy Share Image
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Death Copy Share Image
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Asks Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Heart Copy Share Image
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Creed Copy Share Image
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conflict Copy Share Image
Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Boundless 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 Aspiration Copy Share Image
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Always moving 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 Best opportunity Copy Share Image
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Deeper Copy Share Image
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Communion 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
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
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
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Campfire Copy Share Image
Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Arms Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Abiding 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
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beauty Copy Share Image
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Essential Copy Share Image
Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Good life Copy Share Image
