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• Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
  -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)...
• Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. -- William Ellery Channing
• I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me; If my bark sinks, 't is to another sea.
  -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) -- A Poet's Hope...
• Most joyful let the Poet be; It is through him that all men see.
  -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) -- The Poet of the Old and New Time...
• I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's mid
  and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour....
• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed.
  A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated....