James Russell Lowell – 27 Quotes

27 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

– James Russell Lowell

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

– James Russell Lowell

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.

– James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

– James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

– James Russell Lowell

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

– James Russell Lowell

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

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

– James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

– James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

– James Russell Lowell

Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

– James Russell Lowell

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

– James Russell Lowell

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

– James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

– James Russell Lowell

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

– James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

– James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

– James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

– James Russell Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

– James Russell Lowell

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

– James Russell Lowell

Light is the symbol of truth.

– James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

– James Russell Lowell

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

– James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

– James Russell Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

– James Russell Lowell

On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.

– James Russell Lowell

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

– James Russell Lowell