James Russell Lowell Quotes

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.