926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.