546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.