James Russell Lowell

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."