The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
James Russell LowellGreatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell LowellIt is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
James Russell LowellAll birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.
James Russell Lowell