Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

Into each life some rain must fall.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hope

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

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.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

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.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

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.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

Music is the universal language of mankind.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

Resolve and thou art free.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom