William Ellery Channing Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most previous thought, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.
~ William Ellery Channing

Books;

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
~ William Ellery Channing

Amiability;

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
~ William Ellery Channing

Books;

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
~ William Ellery Channing

Difficulty;

Error is discipline through which we advance.
~ William Ellery Channing

Error;

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
~ William Ellery Channing

Faith;