James Russell Lowell Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

• New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Onward And Upward, Progress, Ancient

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

• The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rivers, Heaven

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

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