Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quote

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.


Extemporaneous Discourses (ed. 1860)


A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip...

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip...

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip...

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip...