There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Duty Copy Share Image
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Birth Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Baby Copy Share Image
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Character Copy Share Image
Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action 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
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Action 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
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 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 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
All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Diamond Copy Share Image
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
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 Copy Share Image
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Excellence 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 Copy Share Image
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conflict Copy Share Image
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Creed Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Heart Copy Share Image
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Authenticity Copy Share Image
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Flower 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 Copy Share Image
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Death Copy Share Image
No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Darkness Copy Share Image
Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Conscience Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Boast 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 Copy Share Image
Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beauty Copy Share Image
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature,… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Acceptance 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
If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
