Quotes by : William Ellery Channing

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

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 fashion;....

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

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

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

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 effectively....

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

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