Quotes by : William Ellery Channing

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

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

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

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

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

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

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

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

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

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.