James Russell Lowell
  • 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.

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

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

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

  • A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.