926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

Tis always morning somewhere.

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.