Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
James Russell LowellSome day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
James Russell LowellThe opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.
James Russell LowellI have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell