Quotes from James Russell Lowell

And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

They are slaves who dare not beIn the right with two or three.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Blessed are the horny hands of toil!

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

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

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work And tools to work withal, for those who will....

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

When I was a beggarly boy,And lived in a cellar damp,I had not a friend nor a toy,But I had Aladdin's lamp.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:Don't never prophesy—onless ye know.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.