Edwin Hubbell ChapinThinkers

The Charlatan is verbose and assumptive.

The City is a great school for principle for the man who passes through its temptations, and yet holds on, unyielding, to the right will be proved as if by fire.

The City is an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone and is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but in a moral and spiritual sense.

The Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

The Event is only the shells of ideas.

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

Felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.