Quotes from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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

The essence of justice is mercy.

Pride is the master sin of the devil.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

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

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

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

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.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.