Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Resolve and thou art free.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Evil is only good perverted.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.