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• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxxiv, (ed. 1844.)...
• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral
• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side
  Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the righ...
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...