More from James Russell Lowell

  1. No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
  2. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
  3. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion,-emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
  4. A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
  5. There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner o…
  6. He must be a born leader or misleader of men, or must have been sent into the world unfurnished with that modulating and restraining balanc…
  7. Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  8. I hear America sometimes playfully accused of sending you all your storms, and am in the habit of parrying the charge by alleging that we a…

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