James Russell Lowell

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. "

"As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend. "

"But all God's angels come to us disguised... "

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. "

"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. "

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. "

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. "

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. "

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. "

"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy. "

"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.' "

"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. "