Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Into each life some rain must fall.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.