Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

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Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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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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Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

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The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

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Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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

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