James Russell Lowell Quotations | Page 2

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.

He's true to God who's true to man.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.