Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands. — 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
