Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart, when the full river of feeling overflows.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A boy’s will is the wind’s will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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Three Silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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