Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Appearance Copy Share Image
Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Discretion Copy Share Image
I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Babbling Copy Share Image
I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry Copy Share Image
Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Break 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
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
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bird 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
Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Coast Copy Share Image
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection 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
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
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
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Air Copy Share Image
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bigotry Copy Share Image
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Cheat Copy Share Image
The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Acorn Copy Share Image
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Arteries 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
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Anomalies 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
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Disposition Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Deepest life Copy Share Image
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action Copy Share Image
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Cases Copy Share Image
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Bed Copy Share Image
Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Development 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
A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Amount Copy Share Image
O, how much those men are to be valued who, in the spirit with which the widow gave up her two mites,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ashes Copy Share Image
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Allegiance Copy Share Image
There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Delightful Copy Share Image
The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Boxes 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
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
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
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
