Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Challenges Copy Share Image
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Assurance Copy Share Image
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Differences Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Brutal Copy Share Image
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Death Copy Share Image
Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Astronomy 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
A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Creation 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
A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christ Copy Share Image
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Humor Copy Share Image
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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 Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
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 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
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Concurrence Copy Share Image
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Ability Copy Share Image
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Enemies Copy Share Image
“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Character Copy Share Image
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christ Copy Share Image
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Devil Copy Share Image
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Achievement Copy Share Image
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Adversity 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
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Goodness Copy Share Image
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beautiful 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 Copy Share Image
