546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.