James Russell Lowell Quotes
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
