William Ellery Channing Quotes

It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

The great hope of society is individual character.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read them.

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.