Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

A boy's will is the wind's will.

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Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

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Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

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All things are symbols.

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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The young may die, but the old must!

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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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Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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

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The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

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