40 Quotes by William Channing

He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.

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

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds. In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.

It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.

Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.