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

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.
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

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
James Russell Lowell