Quotes from E. H. Chapin

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.

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

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

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

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

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

Observations always involve theory.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

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

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.