“god be thanked for books. they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
