926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.