Quote: A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. [James Lowell]
Quote: A sneer is the weapon of the weak. [James Lowell]
Quote: The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. [James Lowell]
Quote: Not failure, but low aim, is crime. [James Lowell]
Quote: Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [James Lowell]
Quote: Freedom is the only law which genius knows. [James Lowell]
Quote: Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship. [James Lowell]
Quote: Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [James Lowell]
Quote: Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. [James Lowell]
Quote: They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. [James Lowell]
Quote: Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [James Lowell]
Quote: Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. [James Lowell]
Quote: What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. [James Lowell]
Quote: The idol is the measure of the worshipper. [James Lowell]
Quote: To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. [James Lowell]
Quote: Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. [James Lowell]
Quote: Sorrow is the great idealizer. [James Lowell]
Quote: 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. [James Lowell]
Quote: It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. [James Lowell]
Quote: One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. [James Lowell]
Quote: Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. [James Lowell]
Quote: Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. [James Lowell]
Quote: The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market. [James Lowell]
Quote: It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. [James Lowell]
Quote: The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. [James Lowell]