Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother`s face, her aspect and her attitude.

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

The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

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

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

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

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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