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• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  James Russel Lowell...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Library of Old Autho...
• 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...
• He gives us the very quintessence of perception,--the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Coleridge...
• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• We have them just where they want us. -- Captain James T. Kirk