Abbott L. Lowell Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.	University
2	Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.	Art
3	Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.	Action
4	Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.	Adversity
5	There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.	Argument
6	Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.	Compromise
7	Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.	Death
8	We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which cracked glass represents him.	Death
9	There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.	Dispute
10	It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.	Education

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