Edwin Hubbel Chapin
» Action » “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
» Adversity » “Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.”
» Age and Aging » “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.”
» Courage » “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.”
» Endurance » “Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.”
» Forgiveness » “Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
» Happiness » “The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.”
» Justice » “The essence of justice is mercy.”
» Motivation » “Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man’s moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.”
» Opportunity » “The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.”
» Ostentation » “Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.”
» Ostentation » “Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.”
» Poetry and Poets » “Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth — the true poet is very near the oracle.”
» Profanity » “Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.”
» Self-respect » “No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.”
» Skepticism » “Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.”
» Vision » “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 up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.”
