Top 66 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

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

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

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

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

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

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

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.