Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The soul...is audible, not visible.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

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

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.