Quotes by William Ellery Channing

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.