Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

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The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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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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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

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If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

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