Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

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

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the >>

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what t >>

Quotations about Argument

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really th >>

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people >>

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. >>

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Lowell, James Russell