Action, Man, World Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested. - James Russell Lowell
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. - James Russell Lowell
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. - James Russell Lowell
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. - James Russell Lowell
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. - James Russell Lowell
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. - 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
People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs. - Jill Robinson