James Russell Lowell Quotes
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
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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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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
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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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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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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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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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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 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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Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.
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Ef you take a sword an’ dror it,An’ go stick a feller thru,Guv’mint ain’t to answer for it,God’ll send the bill to you.
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I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, - One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
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Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.