Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

The foolish and the dead never change their opinions. >>

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. >>

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character >>

Quotations about Character

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a >>

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself. >>

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their >>

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell