4 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Self

James Russell Lowell quotes on self

7. The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

11. The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

86. No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

98. Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.