926 Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only, alas! the poor, who had neither friends nor attendants, / Crept away to die in the almshouse, home of the homeless.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

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

A word that has been said may be unsaid; it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

I have you fast in my fortress / And will not let you depart, / But put you down in the dungeon / In the round tower of my heart.

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees; Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and round / Without a pause, without a sound: / So spins the flying world away! / This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, / Follows the motion of my hand; / For some must follow, and some command, / Though all are made of clay!

Hospitality sitting with gladness.