A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
James Russell LowellThings always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
James Russell LowellIn the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
James Russell LowellAmong the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.
James Russell Lowell