Quotes by James Russell Lowell

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to blieve em too hard.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Though old the thought and oft exprest tis his at last who says it best.

Granting our wish is one of Fates saddest jokes.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

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

In lifes small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when shell say to thee I find thee worthy do this deed for me?

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I dont want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

The question of commonsense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Earths noblest thing a Woman perfected.