148 Quotes by William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, ’tis to another sea.

Home – the nursery of the Infinite.

To me it seems that the soul, in all its higher actions, in original thought, in the creations of genius, in the soarings of imagination, in its love of beauty and grandeur, in its aspirations after a pure and unknown joy, and especially in disinterestedness, in the spirit of self-sacrifice, and in enlightened devotion, has a character of infinity.

True love is the parent of humility...

The world is governed by opinion.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Of all treasons against humanity, there is no one worse than his who employs great intellectual force to keep down the intellect of his less favored brothers.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.