8 quotes
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
- William Ellery Channing
Inspiration
"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."
- William Ellery Channing
Leadership
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
- William Ellery Channing
Faith
"Love taking the form of aspiration."
- William Ellery Channing
Aspirations
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Ellery Channing
Strength
"Error is discipline through which we advance."
- William Ellery Channing
Learning from Mistakes
"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
- William Ellery Channing
Education
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds."
- William Ellery Channing
Knowledge