Quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

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

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

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

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

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.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

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

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

God is the explanation of all things.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

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

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

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

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.