It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. — 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
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern… — 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
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