William Ellery Channing Quotes
The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deed...
Show MoreReading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...
Show MoreWhat distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...
Show MoreNo man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreFaith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golde...
Show MoreLife has a higher end, than to be amused.
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...
Show Morea man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreWe smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...
Show MoreWhy is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...
Show MoreWe grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
The world is governed by opinion.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do wh...
Show MoreTo live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a st...
Show MoreNothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef...
Show MoreNothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef...
Show MoreEvery man is a volume if you know how to read them.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
Show MoreThe human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...
Show MoreMistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unwort...
Show MoreHow easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golde...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreNo man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...
Show MoreThe sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deed...
Show MoreIt is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...
Show MoreThe mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...
Show MoreThe great hope of society is individual character.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to ...
Show MoreTo live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreThe office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
Show MoreEvery man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...
Show Morea man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...
Show MoreWe smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...
Show MoreWhy is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...
Show MoreWe grow by love ... others are our nutriment.
The world is governed by opinion.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do wh...
Show MoreTo live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreDifficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a st...
Show MoreWe must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unwort...
Show MoreTo live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fa...
Show MoreGod is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to ...
Show MoreThe great hope of society is individual character.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...
Show MoreThe world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...
Show MoreMost joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
