546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.