546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

History is clarified experience.