William Ellery Channing quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The world is governed by opinion.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.