Edwin hubbel chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

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.

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.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

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

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

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

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.

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.