Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

“I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.”

“Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.”

“Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.”

“In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.”

“Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.”

“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.”

“Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.”

“Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”

“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.”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”

“Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.”

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

“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”

“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”

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

“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...”

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

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

“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly...”