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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow