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.

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

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

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.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

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

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

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.