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• 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...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,--emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Both of them [Breckenridge and Douglas, Lincoln's opponents] mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect, -- that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Library of Old Autho...
• She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Love, iv...
• 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...