E. H. Chapin Quotes

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

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.

That's when I asked her where was that actress She said "That was somebody else" And then I asked her why she looked so happy now She said "I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

The essence of justice is mercy.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.