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 LowellOur American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
James Russell LowellThe first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
James Russell Lowell