James Russell Lowell

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

True love is but a humble, low born thing,_x000D_ _x000D_ And hath its food served up in earthenware;_x000D_ _x000D_ It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,_x000D_ _x000D_ Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they_x000D_ _x000D_ Who give her aspirations wings,_x000D_ _x000D_ And to the wiser law of music sway_x000D_ _x000D_ Her wild imaginings.

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

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.