35 quotes by 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

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“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

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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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“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

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

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“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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