Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded t >>

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it wer >>

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius >>

Quotations about Ancestry

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better a >>

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. >>

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sa >>

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

Lowell, James Russell