James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
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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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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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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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Like streams that keep a summer mindSnow-hid in Jenooary.
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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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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
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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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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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I du believe with all my soulIn the gret Press's freedom,To pint the people to the goalAn' in the traces lead 'em.
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All kin' o' smily round the lips,An' teary round the lashes.
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An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.
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Earth’s noblest thing, - a woman perfected.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
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Of my meritOn thet pint you yourself may jedge;All is, I never drink no sperit,Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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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.