The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
James Russell LowellTag: solitude soul souls nurse
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
James Russell LowellPuritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
James Russell LowellIt was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
James Russell LowellNo man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell LowellAn appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell LowellA wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
James Russell LowellThings always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
James Russell LowellThe surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.
On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
James Russell LowellTag: politics common-sense statesmanship
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