Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin