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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• Of my merit On thet pint you yourself may jedge; All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii...
• To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.
• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• Ez fer war, I call it murder,-- There you hev it plain an' fla
  I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that....