William Ellery Channing

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

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.

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.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

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.

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