Quotes By James Russell Lowell

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.

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

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.