“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.”
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Famous William Ellery Channing Quotes
Source: The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing
Source: The Works of William Ellery Channing
“A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
“A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.”
“Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.”
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings
Source: Lecture on War
“Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.”
Source: Poems
“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.”
Source: (420 p.)
Source: Memoir of William Ellery Channing: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts
Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838
Source: (407 p.)
Source: Poems
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
Source: The complete works of W. E. Channing, D. D., with an introduction
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838
“Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.”
Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838