Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed >>

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in >>

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more bea >>

Quotations about Freedom

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sh >>

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, a >>

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ou >>

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Lowell, James Russell