Quotes About James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge.

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

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.