546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future. Behind the dim unknown stands God, Within the shadow keeping watch above his own.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Greatly begin! though thou hast timeBut for a line, be that sublime --Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

There was no beauty of the wood or fieldBut she its fragrant bosom-secret knew,Nor any but to her would freely yieldSome grace that in her soul took root and grew;Nature to her shone as but now revealed, All rosy-fresh with innocent morning dew,And looked into her heart with dim, sweet eyesThat left it full of sylvan memories.

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.