546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.