John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapmanwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 March 1862
CountryUnited States of America
hatred unity politics
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
government outcomes virtue
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
character men ideas
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.
intelligent earth want
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
heartbroken home ambition
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in their lives of others. Your ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. But the heartbroken people - if I may use the word in a mild, benevolent sense - the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome.
men long may
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
weapons intellect humans
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
teacher teaching home
Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.
enemy prejudice buying
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
hands age uniforms
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
hate squash america
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
thinking wickedness victim
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
focus magazines ratios
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
agreement too-much
Too much agreement kills the chat.