How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

— William Ellery Channing

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

— William Ellery Channing

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

— William Ellery Channing

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

— William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

— William Ellery Channing

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

— William Ellery Channing

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

— William Ellery Channing

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

— William Ellery Channing

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

— William Ellery Channing

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

— William Ellery Channing