546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

New occasions teach new duties.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.