James Russell Lowell Quotes
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.
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It may be glorious to writeThoughts that shall glad the two or threeHigh souls, like those far stars that come in sightOnce in a century.
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The Maple puts her corals on in May,While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,To be in tune with what the robins sing.
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Under the yaller pines I house,When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,An' hear among their furry boughsThe baskin' west-wind purr contented.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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Earth’s noblest thing, - a woman perfected.
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Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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Like streams that keep a summer mindSnow-hid in Jenooary.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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They came three thousand miles, and died,To keep the Past upon its throne;Unheard, beyond the ocean tide,Their English mother made her moan.
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Ez fer war, I call it murder-There you hev it plain an' flat;I don't want to go no furderThan my Testyment fer that.
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All kin' o' smily round the lips,An' teary round the lashes.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
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Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame;Ev'y thin' thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
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When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god.
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Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu,An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.