James Russell Lowell Quote

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.


Review of The Shadow of Dante (ed. 1872)


Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.