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• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• I'm as innocent as a new-laid egg.
• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Democracy and Addresse...
• 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...
• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak.
  . . . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three....
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet xxxiv, (ed. 1844.)...