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
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. - James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. - 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
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