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• This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to re
  I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast....
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Among my Books, First Series, Dryde...
• Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like other people.
  -- James Russell Lowell, "My Study Window...
• Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet iv...
• The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• 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...