Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. - James Russell Lowell
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. - 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
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. - Egon Schiele
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. - Khalil Gibran
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. - Paul Tsongas
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. - John Sterling
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. - Mark Twain
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. - Vaclav Havel