Quotes by Channing, William Ellery

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior mi >>

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. >>

The world is governed by opinion. >>

Quotations about Labor

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an of >>

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to t >>

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the >>

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

Channing, William Ellery