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• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Garfield...
• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• 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...
• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...
• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• 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....
• Science has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men. -- Jean Rostand