Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way, / But to act, that each to-morrow / Find us farther than today.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow