Quotes by James Russell Lowell

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all mens souls.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

In creating the only hard things to begin A grass-blades no easier to make than an oak.

Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and cant write can surely review.

Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.