Quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Impatience never commanded success.

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

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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.

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

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

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

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.