James Russell Lowell

“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”

“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”

“A wise man travels to discover himself.”

“What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.”

“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”

“In creating the only hard thing's to begin”

“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”

“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.”

“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”

“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”

“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.”

“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”

“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.”

“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.”

“The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.”

“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”