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• Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie
  Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not....
• T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect day
  Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays....
• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Part Second, viii...
• 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...
• But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• 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...