James Russell Lowell Good Quotations

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.