Men Quotes by James Russell Lowell

He's true to God who's true to man.

— James Russell Lowell

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

— James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

— James Russell Lowell

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

— James Russell Lowell

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

— James Russell Lowell

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

— James Russell Lowell

Stern men with empires in their brains.

— James Russell Lowell

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

— James Russell Lowell

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye…

— James Russell Lowell

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

— James Russell Lowell

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

— James Russell Lowell

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

— James Russell Lowell

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

— James Russell Lowell

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

— James Russell Lowell

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his…

— James Russell Lowell

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

— James Russell Lowell

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and…

— James Russell Lowell

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set…

— James Russell Lowell

O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts…

— James Russell Lowell

The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by…

— James Russell Lowell

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in…

— James Russell Lowell

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay…

— James Russell Lowell

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet.…

— James Russell Lowell

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

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad…

— James Russell Lowell

Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious…

— James Russell Lowell

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work…

— James Russell Lowell

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory…

— James Russell Lowell

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are…

— James Russell Lowell

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show…

— James Russell Lowell

The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather;…

— James Russell Lowell

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that…

— James Russell Lowell

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were…

— James Russell Lowell

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

— James Russell Lowell

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel…

— James Russell Lowell

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence…

— James Russell Lowell

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

— James Russell Lowell

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

— James Russell Lowell

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

— James Russell Lowell