Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

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Every man has his secret sorrows.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

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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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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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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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Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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

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O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

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

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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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Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

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Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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