546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

Idleness induces caprice.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.