Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

“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.”

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall”

“The Rainy Day The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts...”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

“The soul ... is audible, not visible.”

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

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

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting.”

“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”

“Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it”

“O, never from the memory of my heart Your dear, paternal image shall depart, Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised, Taught me how mortals are immortalized; How grateful am I for that patient care All my life long my language shall declare.”

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

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

“The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”

“The nearer the dawn the darker the night.”

“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.”

“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”

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

“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.”

“Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.”

“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

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

“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”

“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”

“The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”

“That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.”

“If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”

“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.”

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

“A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.”

“The human voice is the organ of the soul.”

“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.”

“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”

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

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

“Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.”

“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.”

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

“As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.”

“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.”

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Resolve and thou art free.”

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

“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

“Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”

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

“Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.”

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

“Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.”

“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.”

“Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”

“How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”

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

“All things must change To something new, to something strange.”

“The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.”

“Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.”

“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.”

“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”