546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

For there’s nothing we read of in torture’s inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit’s sight grows clearer.

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it.

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.”

He’s true to God who’s true to man.

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals, – so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can’t see it – but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now – a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies – it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey’s end.