“Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates.”— William Ellery Channing, Memoir of William Ellery Channing, 1848Share
“Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.”— William Ellery ChanningShare
“The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within.”— William Ellery ChanningShare
“God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead.”— William Ellery ChanningShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”— Eleanor RooseveltShare
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.”— Simone de BeauvoirShare
“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”— Percy Bysshe ShelleyShare
