926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

My Book and Heart Shall never part.