Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

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The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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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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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

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

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Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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