No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
William Ellery ChanningThe hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery ChanningWe never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.
William Ellery Channing