Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
John Jay ChapmanThe reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
John Jay ChapmanNothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
John Jay Chapman