I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
William Ellery ChanningTo live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
William Ellery ChanningIt is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
William Ellery ChanningAn earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing