“If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.”
Source: Letters
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Famous James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: My Study Windows
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."”
Source: Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole
Source: My Study Windows
“No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Essays, English and American
“Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
Source: Among My Books
“Light is the symbol of truth.”
Source: Poems
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
Source: Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell
Source: Literary and political addresses
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
Source: The North American Review
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
Source: Among my Books, etc
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
Source: Poems
“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A
Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.”
Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
Source: Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton
“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell