Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

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The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

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The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

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

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The bravest are the tenderest.

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Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

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Tis always morning somewhere.

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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