“There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge. James Russell Lowell
“For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul’s tasking:’Tis heaven alone that is given away,’Tis only God may be had for the asking. James Russell Lowell
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.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
“Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. James Russell Lowell