Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinIs there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?
Edwin Hubbel ChapinA man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinHome is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin