Quotes from James Russell Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.