Quotes by Chapman, John Jay

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drownin >>

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, >>

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of wha >>

Quotations about Fate

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fat >>

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a littl >>

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fa >>

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.

Chapman, John Jay