William Ellery Channing

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually."

"The great hope of society is in individual character."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."