Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Morality 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.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.