Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

Into each life some rain must fall.

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.

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

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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