Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. >>

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for >>

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhe >>

A mere scholar, a mere ass. >>

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the p >>

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

Lowell, James Russell