James Russell Lowell Quotes

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some new decision, offering each bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

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

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed
Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued,
And cries reproachful: “Was it then my praise,
And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth;
I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

Marilah kita bergembira.
Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth,
Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive
Of sunshine and wide air and winged things,
By sympathy of nature, so do I