James Russell Lowell Long Quotations

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze...

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.