926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!