Quotes by James Russell Lowell

“Fate loves the fearless.”

“Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.”

“In creating the only hard thing's to begin”

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”

“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

“Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.”

“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”

“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”

“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”

“Light is the symbol of truth.”

“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”

“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”