Source: Fireside Travels
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Famous James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A
Source: Fireside Travels
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.”
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
Source: Among My Books
Source: THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.
“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Democracy, and Other Addresses
“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.
“Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.”
Source: My Study Windows
“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“A wise man travels to discover himself.”
Source: Literary Essays
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...
Source: The Poetical works
“One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“All God's angels come to us disguised.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays
“He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.”
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations
Source: Among My Books
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
Source: Letters of James Russell Lowell
“That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.”
Source: Literary and political addresses
“A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.”
“There is something magnificent in having a country to love.”
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.
Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal