546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.