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• Blessed are they have have nothing to say and can not be persuaded with any known prize, to say it.
• 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...
• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him.
  There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will...
• T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
  -- George Elio...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- For an Autograph...
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
  -- George Eliot (1819-1880) English writer, Impressions of Theophratus Such...
• Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
  -- George Eliot (1819-1880) -- Impressions on Theophrastus Such (1879)...