546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Silence is sorrow's best food.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.