James Russell Lowell

“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”

“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

“He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.”

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”

“Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.”

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