Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was >>

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. >>

Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset >>

Quotations about Understanding

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. >>

Seek first to understand and then to be understood. >>

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. >>

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Lowell, James Russell