In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIntelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMorality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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 LONGFELLOWThere 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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW