Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.”

“Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.”

“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”

“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”

“Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.”

“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”

“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”

“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.”

“The crown and glory of life is character.”

“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”

“The golden age is not in the past, but in the future.”

“Impatience is the mark of a boy, not of a man.”

“The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.”

“The homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”