Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its danger >>

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beautie >>

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere - >>

Quotations about Nature

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. >>

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. >>

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in t >>

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth