546 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.