Quotes by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Resolve and thou art free. >>

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age >>

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

Quotations about Books - Reading

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us i >>

What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to >>

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we >>

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth