Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a nights repose.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

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

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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

Into each life some rain must fall.

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.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”

“Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought”