Others are affected by what I am and say and do. And these others have also their sphere of
influence. So that a single act of mine
may spread in widening circles through a nation or humanity.
-
W. E. Channing[1]
[1] This may
refer to Dr. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) the foremost Unitarian
preacher in the United States in the first half of the 19th century;
or it may refer to his namesake nephew, William Ellery Channing (1818-1901) the
Transcendentalist poet.
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