William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused…

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to…

The great hope of society is in individual character…

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

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity…

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity…

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but…

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order…

The home is the chief school of human virtues…

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration…

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost…

The world is governed by opinion…

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when…

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…