546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.