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 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
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image