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

-James Russell Lowell

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

-James Russell Lowell

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

-James Russell Lowell

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

-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

“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”

-James Russell Lowell