Words matter. These are the best James Russell Lowell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
Light is the symbol of truth.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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.
Fate loves the fearless.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
