Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

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O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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My own thoughts Are my companions.

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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

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How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

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

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

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In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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