Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Neutral men are the devil's allies.”

“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”

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

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

“Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.”

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

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

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

“The essence of justice is mercy.”

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

“This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.”

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

“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.”

“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”

“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”

“The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.”

“Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.”

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

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

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