Quotes William Ellery Channing

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and gro...

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human s...

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie....

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be w...

Error is discipline through which we advance....

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to p...

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own...

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its natur...

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration....

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything s...

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant...

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all ...

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is,...

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is t...

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the l...

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

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it...

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with s...

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with...

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished co...

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which de...

Life has a higher end, than to be amused....

No one should part with their individuality and become that ...

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depre...