926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.