More quotes by William Ellery Channing

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."
"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."