Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ability 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
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Evil Copy Share Image
Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Default Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ancient Copy Share Image
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin All things 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
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
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conservatism 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
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
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Concurrence 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
Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Appeals Copy Share Image
In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conviction Copy Share Image
If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Angel Copy Share Image
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Burning Copy Share Image
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Children Copy Share Image
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Flower 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
God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Dear Copy Share Image
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Calories Copy Share Image
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Essential Copy Share Image
