As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman Bored Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. — John Jay Chapman Injuring Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains — John Jay Chapman Brains Copy Share Image
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. — John Jay Chapman Culture Copy Share Image
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum… — John Jay Chapman Dreams Copy Share Image
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. — John Jay Chapman Cesspool Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -… — John Jay Chapman America Copy Share Image
A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many… — John Jay Chapman Disturbed Copy Share Image
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle… — John Jay Chapman Books Copy Share Image
We cannot hand our faith to one another… Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically… — John Jay Chapman Age Copy Share Image
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will… — John Jay Chapman Dog Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into… — John Jay Chapman Better way Copy Share Image
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you… — John Jay Chapman Action Copy Share Image
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own… — John Jay Chapman Contemplation Copy Share Image
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Agitation Copy Share Image
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and… — John Jay Chapman Action Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly… — John Jay Chapman Age Copy Share Image
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,… — John Jay Chapman American politics Copy Share Image
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home… — John Jay Chapman Carpenter Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the… — John Jay Chapman America Copy Share Image
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the… — John Jay Chapman Age Copy Share Image
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman Lost Copy Share Image
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. — John Jay Chapman Politics Copy Share Image
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman Earth Copy Share Image
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman Dreadful Copy Share Image
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects. — John Jay Chapman Discussion Copy Share Image
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and… — John Jay Chapman Benevolence Copy Share Image
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. — John Jay Chapman Character Copy Share Image
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to… — John Jay Chapman Catching Copy Share Image
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and… — John Jay Chapman Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man,… — John Jay Chapman Business Copy Share Image
If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your… — John Jay Chapman Bonfire Copy Share Image
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever… — John Jay Chapman Buying Copy Share Image
