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• 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...
• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Library of Old Autho...
• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him.
  There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will...
• 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...
• Both of them [Breckenridge and Douglas, Lincoln's opponents] mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect, -- that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)...
• She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Love, iv...
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...