Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

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

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.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.