Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
James Russell LowellIn the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
James Russell LowellBe He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
James Russell LowellThere is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
James Russell LowellThe time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.
James Russell Lowell