Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinNo man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinDo not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinThe productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinNo one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinMan 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