True love is but a humble, low born thing,
And hath its food served up in earthenware;
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,
Through the every-dayness of this workday world. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. - James Russell Lowell. View more images...