A biography for Edwin Hubbel Chapinhasn’t been written yet.
“Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.”
“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.”
“The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.”
“Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.”