Quote by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

• There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

• A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.