James Russell Lowell Time Quotations

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.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."