Edwin Hubbell Chapin
22 quotes.
Quotes by Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.
- Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
- Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
- 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.
- Neutral men are the devil's allies.
- Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
- Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.
- The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them,--besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.
- The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation.
- The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it.
- The great doers in history have always been men of faith.
- There is no mean work, save that which is sordidly selfish; no irreligious work, save that which is morally wrong; in every sphere of life the post of honor is the post of duty.
- Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what, alas! it too often does--unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical.
- Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.