William Ellery Channing quotes

" Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. " # Perseverance

" The home is the chief school of human virtues. " # Virtue

" Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. " # Perfection # Leaders and Leadership # Life and Living

" Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. " # Fun # Freedom # Power

" Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. " # Books - Reading

" Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. " # Perseverance

" Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. " # Earth # Ideas # Love

" Error is discipline through which we advance. " # Mistakes

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

" The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. " # Enemies