John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapmanwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 March 1862
CountryUnited States of America
years political world
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
character long half
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
life teacher teaching
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
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.
intelligent earth want
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
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.
happiness character emotion
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
boredom done leaving-me
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
religious long political
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.
society new-testament criticize
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
business men worst-enemy
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
party magic curiosity
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
steps culture easy
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
vision doe armchairs
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.