Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“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.”

“There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”