William Channing Men Quotations

The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.

In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.

Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see