James Russell Lowell quotes

" Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. " # Leisure

" Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. " # Deeds and Good Deeds # Love # Action

" Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. " # Adversity

" Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. " # Misfortunes # Memory # Cheerfulness

" Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. " # Books - Reading # Mind # Love

" Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. " # Solitude

" One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. " # Experience # Life and Living # Wilderness

" The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. " # Opinions # Change # Death and Dying

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. " # Democracy

" Not failure, but low aim, is crime. " # Failure # Crime and Criminals # Goals