Quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Act-act in the living Present!

The present is the blocks with which we build.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!

Why don't you speak for yourself, John?

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

Must read, or sit in reverie and watch The changing color of the waves that break Upon the idle seashore of the mind!

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.