James Russell Lowell quotes

“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”

— James Russell Lowell

“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”

— James Russell Lowell

“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.”

— James Russell Lowell

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

— James Russell Lowell

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

— James Russell Lowell

“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”

— James Russell Lowell