“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
James Russell Lowell“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
James Russell Lowell“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
James Russell Lowell“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
James Russell Lowell“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 Russell Lowell“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
James Russell Lowell“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 Russell Lowell“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
James Russell Lowell“Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
James Russell Lowell“Light is the symbol of truth.”
James Russell Lowell“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
James Russell Lowell