No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell LowellCreativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell LowellGod is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.
James Russell Lowell[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
James Russell Lowell