James Russell Lowell Quotes
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
[Slavery]
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best.
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Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.
[Genius]
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
[Trust]
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.
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Tyranny is always weakness.
[Tyranny]
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, leisure, and liberty.
[Wealth]
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
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When will poets learn that a grass-blade of their own raising is worth a barrow-load of flowers from their neighbor's garden?
[Originality]
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
[God]
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