546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.