James Russell Lowell - Sense Quotes

9 Sourced Quotes

View all James Russell Lowell Quotes
Pope had a sense of the neat rather than of the beautiful. His nature delighted more in detecting the blemish than in enjoying its charm.

James Russell Lowell
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Russell Lowell
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

James Russell Lowell
Italy gives us antiquity with good roads, cheap living, and above all, a sense of freedom from responsibility.

James Russell Lowell
The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

James Russell Lowell
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

James Russell Lowell
The democratic theory is that those Constitutions are likely to prove steadiest which have the broadest base, that the right to vote makes a safety - valve of every voter, and that the best way of teaching a man how to vote is to give him the chance of practice. For the question is no longer the academic one, "Is it wise to give every man the ballot?" but rather the practical one, "Is it prudent to deprive whole classes of it any longer?" It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong in their heads.

James Russell Lowell
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.

James Russell Lowell
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell