Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"Into each life some rain must fall."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

"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."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"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."

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

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

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

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."