Top 66 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

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