Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

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Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

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But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

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Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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