546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.