Citations de James Russell Lowell

En anglais : "In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity."

En anglais : "A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."

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

En anglais : "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

En anglais : "There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. And in this case, also, the prudent will prepare themselves to encounter what they cannot prevent. Some people advise us to put on the brakes, as if the movement of which we are conscious were that of a railway train running down an incline. But a metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home and imbed it in the memory."

En anglais : "Not failure, but low aim, is crime."

En anglais : "Fate loves the fearless."

En anglais : "Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."

En anglais : "Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

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