Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. James Russell Lowell on adversity
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell on beauty
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. James Russell Lowell on death
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. James Russell Lowell on progress