546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.