James Russell Lowell

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires…

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that…

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts…

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of…

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise…

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition…

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto…

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor…

Not failure, but low aim, is crime…

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious…

Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope…

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it…

On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women…

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of…

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his…