247 Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

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

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

Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

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.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips ... to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.