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• Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.
  James Russel Lowell...
• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Democracy and Addresse...
• The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Library of Old Autho...
• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• 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...
• She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Love, iv...