William Ellery Channing (poet) Quotes

The great hope of society is individual character.

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef...

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unwort...

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a st...

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

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do wh...

The world is governed by opinion.

Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

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

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golde...

Difficulties 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...

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deed...

It 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, ...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

The great hope of society is individual character.

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

To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fa...

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

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work ef...

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unwort...

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a st...

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

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fa...

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do wh...

The world is governed by opinion.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal i...

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the s...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

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

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golde...

Difficulties 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...

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the crue...

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those w...

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deed...

It 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, ...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

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

To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fa...

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

Every 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.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.