If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
James Russell LowellGod does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.
James Russell LowellThe dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
James Russell LowellThat love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
James Russell Lowell