Quotes by : William Ellery Channing

To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion....

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God,....

An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden....

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;....

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty....

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

Why is it that we are so busy with the future? It is not our province; and is there not a criminal interference....

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

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