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• 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...
• 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....
• Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
  -- William Ellery Channing...
• 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
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- To ------, after reading a Life and Lette...
• 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....