Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

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A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

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Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

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There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

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Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

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Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

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