Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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.

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.

Resolve and thou art free.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Evil is only good perverted.