Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

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

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

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light 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.

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

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them–as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself–into the grave, and is forgotten.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars … It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

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.