James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 9

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• Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Path

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.174

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• Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

  James Russell Lowell

  Passion, Men, Political

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• But civlyzation doos git forrid
  Sometimes upon a powder-cart.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sometimes, Powder, Carts

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.208

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• It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Style, Mind, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.88

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• The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Believe, Writing

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162

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• The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

  James Russell Lowell

  Woods, Longing, Silent

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• To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

  James Russell Lowell

  Youth, Young, Gifts Of Life

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.277

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• There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

  James Russell Lowell

  Boston, Rooms, Newspapers

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.397

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• Many make the household but only one the home.

  James Russell Lowell

  Home, Household

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.397

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• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Green

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

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• Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Circles, Years, Earth

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.181

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• In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Speech

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.365

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• It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Legs, Rooms, Printing

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Peace, Rivers

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

  James Russell Lowell

  Night, White, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.631, Delphi Classics

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• No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

  James Russell Lowell

  Country, Ambition, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.3

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• Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Strength, Wisdom, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.147

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• There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Victory, Sun

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Originality, Human Nature

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

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• Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

  James Russell Lowell

  Soil, Generations, Sap

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• What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

  James Russell Lowell

  Kings, Men, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.103

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• This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sound, Opinion, Honest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Simple, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

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