Quotes by Channing, William Ellery

True love is the parent of humility. >>

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with usel >>

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in orde >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everythin >>

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. >>

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to >>

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Channing, William Ellery