926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

The bravest are the tenderest.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.