Quotes by Edwin Chapin

• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
• 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.
• This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
• The essence of justice is mercy.
• The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
• Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
• The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
• Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
• Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
• Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.