John Jay Chapman Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

• Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Character, Emotion

  John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

• 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. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Sight

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Long, Three

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