James Russell Lowell quotes Born: 02/22/1819 Died: 08/12/1891 Country: usa

• A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James Lowell)
• A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (James Lowell)
• The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. (James Lowell) [question/question]
• Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (James Lowell) [crime]
• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. (James Lowell) [nation/moment/conflict/truth]
• Freedom is the only law which genius knows. (James Lowell) [right/genius]
• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship. (James Lowell) [compromise/roof/politics]
• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. (James Lowell) [life/death/angel]
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. (James Lowell) [action]
• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. (James Lowell) [fear/speak]
• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. (James Lowell) [reputation/light]
• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. (James Lowell) [books/bees/mind]
• What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. (James Lowell) [security/time]
• The idol is the measure of the worshipper. (James Lowell) [measure]
• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. (James Lowell) [intelligence/desires]
• Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James Lowell) [democracy/give/right]
• Sorrow is the great idealizer. (James Lowell) [sorrow]
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. (James Lowell) [faith/color/experience]
• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. (James Lowell) [genius/life/rest]
• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Lowell) [experience/warning]
• 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. (James Lowell) [god/morning/day]
• Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. (James Lowell) [fortune]
• The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market. (James Lowell) [brain/market]
• It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. (James Lowell) [instinct/men/more]
• The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. (James Lowell) [think]
• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth. (James Lowell) [day/truth/youth]
• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. (James Lowell) [mind/democracy/etiquette/weapons]
• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it. (James Lowell) [eyes/find]
• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. (James Lowell) [memory]
• He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. (James Lowell)
• Light is the symbol of truth. (James Lowell) [light/truth]

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