What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell LowellI have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell LowellWhere one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell