Quotes from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift 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. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

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.

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.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

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.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

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

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

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.