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 weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conflict Copy Share Image
It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth Copy Share Image
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Forgiveness 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
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Blessing 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
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
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bills Copy Share Image
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Becoming Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Human beings Copy Share Image
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bells Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Brutal 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
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
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Importance Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Baskets Copy Share Image
Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Failure Copy Share Image
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Changed Copy Share Image
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Constellations Copy Share Image
