Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

snow

There was a little girl 
 Who had a little curl 
 Right in the middle of her forehead; 
 And when she was good, 
 She was very, very good 
 But when she was bad she was horrid.

children

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

friendship

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

glory

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

love

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

nature

To which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.

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.

fame success talent

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

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.

chance emotions tso-life

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.