James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.

O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

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

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

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

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

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, __eath every one a friend.

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

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.