Character Quote by William Ellery Channing

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

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

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

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

— William Ellery Channing

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

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

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

— William Ellery Channing

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

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

Error is discipline through which we advance.

— William Ellery Channing

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

— William Ellery Channing

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