Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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

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You would attain to the divine perfection.

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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

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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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Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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Every man has his secret sorrows.

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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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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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

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And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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