James Russell Lowell

"Light is the symbol of truth."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"Fate loves the fearless."

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

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

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"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."