"Life has a higher end, than to be amused" — William Ellery Channing

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact

Source: The Will to Believe (1897)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness

Source: Endymion (1818)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

William Ellery Channing Quote