Edwin Chapin Quotations

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man

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

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it does - what alas! It too often does - unless it hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless it does - what -alas!- it too often does, hardens you and makes you sour and narrow and skeptical.

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift 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. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.