All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell LowellNo man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell LowellA friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
James Russell LowellTo me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.
James Russell Lowell