All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell LowellBe He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
James Russell LowellNature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
James Russell LowellTo me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.
James Russell Lowell