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 Knowledge
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. -William Ellery Channing Intelligence
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 Power
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing Strength
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. -William Ellery Channing Knowledge
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 Great
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. -William Ellery Channing Smile
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. -William Ellery Channing Happiness
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. -William Ellery Channing Nature
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 Society
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. -William Ellery Channing Government
