Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
James Russell LowellNo sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
James Russell LowellChrist was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
James Russell LowellThe very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
James Russell Lowell