William Ellery Channing
17 quotations
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
True love is the parent of humility.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
The world is governed by opinion.