Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinA patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinIn this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinWe only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.
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