Excerpt from Thoughts: Selected From the Writings of the Rev. William E. Channing, D. D Works, will remember how frequently some great truth, to the unfolding of which perhaps several pages were de voted, was at last summed up and con densed, in a single, brief, beautiful, and memorable sentence and many of these apples of gold in pictures of silver are brought together in this little book. N o doubt the reader will miss favorite pas sages, and yet it is not doubted, also, that he will recognize in the following pages many of those pointed sayings and deep thoughts with which he has felt it to be good to commune. In this minia ture form they can be carried about one's person, in the steamboat and car, and when seeking health or recreation by the seashore or the mountain side. The. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.