Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

"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."

"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."

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

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

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

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

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

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

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

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

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

"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."

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

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

"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

"Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose."

"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

"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."