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• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Among my Books, First Series, Dryde...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• 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...
• But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...
• Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii...
• I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vi...
• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- A Fable for Critic...