Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspir >>

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -- an endea >>

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. >>

Quotations about Progress

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? >>

Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. >>

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. >>

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth