John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapmanwas an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth2 March 1862
CountryUnited States of America
work progress
All progress is experimental.
rights liberty
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
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.
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.
society new-testament criticize
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
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.