Edwin Hubbel Chapin quotes and words of wisdom

"The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"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."
Found in the topic Reputation.

"The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation."
Found in the topic Adversity.

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
Found in the topic Eternity.

"No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
Found in the topic Loyalty.

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury."
Found in the topic Injury.

"Neutral men are the devil?s allies."
Found in the topic Conviction.

Interesting Quotes

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.Cenotaph in Hiroshima

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer (1900 - 1944)