Quotes from work
Sonnet

James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell photo

“The wisest man could ask no more of Fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the Many — honored by the Few;
To count as naught in World or Church or State;
But inwardly in secret to be great.”

James Russell Lowell Sonnet

Sonnet, Jeffries Wyman (1874)

Similar authors

James Russell Lowell photo
James Russell Lowell175
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891
Edgar Allan Poe photo
Edgar Allan Poe126
American author, poet, editor and literary critic None
Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge220
English poet, literary critic and philosopher None
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord photo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow photo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow202
American poet None
Matthew Arnold photo
Matthew Arnold166
English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… None
Heinrich Heine photo
Heinrich Heine61
German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic None
Henri-Frédéric Amiel photo
Henri-Frédéric Amiel50
Swiss philosopher and poet None
Charles Baudelaire photo
Charles Baudelaire133
French poet None
François-René de Chateaubriand photo
François-René de Chateaubriand28
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian None