The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, — a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word, “Providence”.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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