The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. William Ellery Channing on best
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing on communication
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing on experience
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing on government
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. William Ellery Channing on great
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing on happiness
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing on happiness
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. William Ellery Channing on intelligence
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. William Ellery Channing on knowledge
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. William Ellery Channing on knowledge
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. William Ellery Channing on knowledge
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing on nature
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. William Ellery Channing on power