Light, World Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. - James Russell Lowell
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. - James Russell Lowell
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. - James Russell Lowell
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. - James Russell Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. - Peter Benchley
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. - Bianca Jagger
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. - Plato
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. - F. H. Bradley