James Russell Lowell Quotes

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

The gift without the giver is rare.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Endurance is the crowning quality.