Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell (exact source unknown)
Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. – James Russell Lowell (exact source unknown)
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. – James Russell Lowell (exact source unknown)
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. – James Russell Lowell (exact source unknown)
James Russell Lowell died this date,8/12/1891, atCambridge,Massachusetts, where he was born2/22/1819). He was both a Poet and a Statesman.