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• All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
  -- James Russell Lowell, "My Study Window...
• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Democracy and Addresse...
• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.
  . . . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three....
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- To George William Curti...
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  -- James Russell Lowell...