926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. It is no secret I tell you, nor am I ashamed to declare it: I have liked to be with you, to see you, to speak with you always.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven’s distant lamps.

Some poems are like the Centaurs – a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.

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

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour.

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

There’s not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!