This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Essentials Copy Share Image
The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Business Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Capability Copy Share Image
Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Disappointment Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Acquire 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
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Believe 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
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Astronomy Copy Share Image
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age 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
There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Honest Copy Share Image
We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Affection Copy Share Image
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Depth 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
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
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
If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Capacity 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
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 Bigots Copy Share Image
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Distinguished Copy Share Image
