Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Resolve and thou art free.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.