Oak In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. - James Russell Lowell
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. - James Russell Lowell
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
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. - 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
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. - Thomas Carlyle
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. - James Russell Lowell