For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
James Russell LowellMishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell LowellThe right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
James Russell Lowell