The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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 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
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
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 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Beauty Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Failure Copy Share Image
The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Chance Copy Share Image
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Alliances 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 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 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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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 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 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 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 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
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Battle Copy Share Image
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Always moving Copy Share Image
There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Aspiration Copy Share Image
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel.… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Age Copy Share Image
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
