James Russell Lowell Mean Quotations

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

Communism means barbarism.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.