It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
James Russell LowellTwo meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
James Russell LowellTrue scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell LowellNo man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
James Russell Lowell