Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely imp >>

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. >>

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the c >>

Quotations about Nature

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purp >>

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. >>

Nature is commanded by obeying her. >>

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