It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. — John Jay Chapman Four Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds. — John Jay Chapman Inspirational 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
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. — John Jay Chapman Politics Copy Share Image
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in… — John Jay Chapman Absolutes 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
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand. — John Jay Chapman Crucial Copy Share Image
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of… — John Jay Chapman Ambition 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
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 world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Adam Copy Share Image
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. — John Jay Chapman Humans 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
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman Lost 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
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
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
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce… — 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
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep… — John Jay Chapman Bases Copy Share Image
