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"Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Amiability

"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Character

"The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Enemies

"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."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Fun

"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Knowledge

"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Perfection

"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
Author:     William Ellery Channing Category:     Smile



  


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