Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
James Russell LowellA great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
James Russell LowellCreativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell LowellTalent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell