Quote #62
God makes sech nights, all white an' still, Fur'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten.
More from James Russell Lowell
- It ain't by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied- I scent wich pays the best, an' then Go into it baldheaded.
- My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy-onless ye know.
- I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
- It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
- I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em.
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
- Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.