Words matter. These are the best Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Evil is only good perverted.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
