An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery ChanningLabor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
William Ellery ChanningWe smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery ChanningI call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
William Ellery Channing