1819-1892, American Poet
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 – [Solitude]
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Simplicity]
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Reverie]
Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Leaders and Leadership]
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Mistakes]
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Affection]
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Cycles]
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Death and Dying]
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Firmness]
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 – [Self-sacrifice]
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Voice]
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature –were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Nature]
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Difficulties]
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Studying]
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Pursuit]
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Anniversaries]
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Critics and Criticism]
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Success]
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Wickedness]
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – [Voice]
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