A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

- James Russell Lowell

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

- James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

- James Russell Lowell

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

- James Russell Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

- James Russell Lowell

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

- James Russell Lowell