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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Part Second, viii...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Library of Old Autho...
• We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• 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....
• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• 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)