Top 66 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.