Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”

“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”

“There 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, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Resolve and thou art free.”

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”

“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”

“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”

“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”

“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

“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.”

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”

“If 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.”

“However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.”

“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.”

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

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