Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized >>

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappoint >>

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break up >>

Quotations about Nature

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, >>

Nature uses as little as possible of anything. >>

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