926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.