James Russell Lowell Quote

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.


Poems (ed. 1844)


Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The...

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The...

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The...

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The...