926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Time rides with the old At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, While the remoter fields and dim horizons Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, So in old age things near us slip away, And distant things go with us.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.