247 Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

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

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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

Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.