Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

— James Russell Lowell

EZ for war I call it murder - There you HEV it plain and flat I don't want to go no murder Than my Testament for that.

— James Russell Lowell

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

— James Russell Lowell

Fate loves the fearless.

— James Russell Lowell

Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.

— James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

— James Russell Lowell

God'll send the bill to you.

— James Russell Lowell

Good heavens of what uncostly 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.

— James Russell Lowell

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.

— James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

— James Russell Lowell