Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share
