Quote #73
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
More from James Russell Lowell
- Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
- It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alon…
- Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
- Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for…
- No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu.
- The little that we do Is but half-nobly true; With our laborious hiving What men call treasure, and the gods call dross, Life seems a jest …
- Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose, An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.
- Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.