Top 66 Quotes by James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.