John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.

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    People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

    I know an Englishman,
    Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
    —George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)