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• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washingto...
• Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• Nature fits all her children with something to do.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• 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...
• Thou, silent form, doth tease us out of thought As doth eternity
  Cold Pastoral! -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- Ode on a Grecian U...
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...