Russell

Famous quotes containing the word russell:

“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

““There is Lowell, who’s striving Parnassus to climb
With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
But he can’t with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
The top of the hill he will ne’er come nigh reaching
Till he learns the distinction ‘twixt singing and preaching;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)