926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

Every human heart is human.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Books are sepulchres of thought.