Edwin Hubbel Chapin May Quotations

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.