Quotes By William Ellery Channing

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 is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

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

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