James Russell Lowell
41 quotations
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.