546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Many make the household but only one the home.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.