William Ellery Channing Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

William Ellery Channing quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 35 we have.

“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.”

“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.”

“No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.”

“The home is the chief school of human virtues.”

“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.”

“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.”

“One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.”

“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”