I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
James Russell LowellNature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
James Russell LowellThe opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.
James Russell LowellIt was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
James Russell Lowell