546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.