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• Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
  -- 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...
• That cause is strong, which has not a multitude, but a strong man behind it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• 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...
• There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' -- Don Marqui
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
  Frequently appended to each installment is a "synposis of preceding chapters" for those who have not read them, but a direr need is a synposis of succeeding chapters for those who do not intend to read _them_....
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Cathedral