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

Quote by James Russell Lowell

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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

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

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

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in...

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences...

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences...

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Communism means barbarism

Communism means barbarism

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer...

Fate loves the fearless.

Fate loves the fearless.

And blessed are the horny hands of toil

And blessed are the horny hands of toil

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way