Quotes from James Russell Lowell

Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

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

That best academy, a mother's knee.

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

The pine is the mother of legends.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

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

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

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

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

God'll send the bill to you.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

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

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.