Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

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

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Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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All things are symbols.

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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

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

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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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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

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Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

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How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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