It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
James Russell LowellThe right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
James Russell LowellThe path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
James Russell LowellMoral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.
James Russell Lowell