God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
William Ellery ChanningO God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness
William Ellery ChanningIt is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery ChanningThe hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing