You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
Abbott Lawrence LowellThe mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
Abbott Lawrence LowellAll that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
Abbott Lawrence LowellAll social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
Abbott Lawrence LowellA tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell