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• 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...
• A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• 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...
• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- New England Two Centuries ago...
• T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• Earth's noblest thing,--a woman perfected. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Irene
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)