James Russell Lowell Mind Quotations

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

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.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.