William Ellery Channing Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.”

“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.”

“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.”

“Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.”

“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.”

“Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.”

“The world is governed by opinion.”

“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”

“Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.”