247 Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God’s works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing, – as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying “swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,” or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness – to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death’s seal is set.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity – its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

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

Neutral men are the devil’s allies.

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being – positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.