Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
James Russell LowellIf one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
James Russell LowellThese pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.
James Russell Lowell