Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The essence of justice is mercy.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin