Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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

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.

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

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.