The human voice is the organ of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow