Quotes by James Russell Lowell

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”

“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.”

“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”

“A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”

“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.”

“There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

“What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!”

“O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.”

“The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.”

“Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.”

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

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

“In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.”

“Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.”

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

“Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!”