Quotes by Lowell, James Russell

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in >>

Not failure, but low aim, is crime. >>

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of >>

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the fune >>

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed. >>

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell