James Russell Lowell
  • Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

  • 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.

  • Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  • 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.

  • Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.