Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
William Ellery ChanningTo extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
William Ellery ChanningThe office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery ChanningThe only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
William Ellery Channing