May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

— James Russell Lowell

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

— James Russell Lowell

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.

— James Russell Lowell

Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.

— James Russell Lowell

No man can produce great things who are not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself

— James Russell Lowell

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!

— James Russell Lowell

Not failure but low aim is crime.

— James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

— James Russell Lowell

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wit that darkness and that light.

— James Russell Lowell

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wit that darkness and that light.

— James Russell Lowell