546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush; All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.