Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others. Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes by Edwin Hubbel Chapin More Quotes From Edwin Hubbel Chapin The essence of justice is mercy. Edwin Hubbel Chapin mercy essence justice Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin family humanity littles In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. Edwin Hubbel Chapin passion secret evil The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find. Edwin Hubbel Chapin skills keys hands Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better. Edwin Hubbel Chapin heart animal men Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession. Edwin Hubbel Chapin goal opportunity life Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. Edwin Hubbel Chapin oracles poetry heart In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. Edwin Hubbel Chapin mere importance world No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. Edwin Hubbel Chapin self-respect loyalty simple 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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin poverty pain love All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light. Edwin Hubbel Chapin shadow light evil The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences. Edwin Hubbel Chapin fashion leader real There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! Edwin Hubbel Chapin ocean sea men Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin inclination temptation opportunity I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sorry people thinking Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. Edwin Hubbel Chapin pride father lying The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust. Edwin Hubbel Chapin jaundice littles men The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. Edwin Hubbel Chapin challenges loss men Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible. Edwin Hubbel Chapin mind Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. Edwin Hubbel Chapin nerves light men
