To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. — James Russell Lowell
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. — James Russell Lowell
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. — James Russell Lowell
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. — James Russell Lowell
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. — James Russell Lowell
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. — James Russell Lowell
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. — James Russell Lowell
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. — James Russell Lowell