Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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

#James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them...

#James Russell Lowell

Light is the symbol of truth.

#James Russell Lowell

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

#James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

#James Russell Lowell

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does...

#James Russell Lowell

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

#James Russell Lowell

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

#James Russell Lowell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to...

#James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

#James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only...

#James Russell Lowell

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress,...

#James Russell Lowell