4 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Solitude

James Russell Lowell quotes on solitude

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

41. Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,-they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

74. 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 alone with so much as our own minds.

88. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.