Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Not in achievement but in endurance of the human soul does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

The city reveals the moral ends of being and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us refreshes us lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Pride is the master sin of the devil and the devil is the father of lies.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

A life is black whiten it as you will.

Skepticism has never founded empires established principals or changed the worlds heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Impatience never commanded success.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Neutral men are the devils allies.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.