Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
James Russell LowellWho gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
James Russell LowellTalent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellTo me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.
James Russell Lowell