Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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.

Evil is only good perverted.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Resolve and thou art free.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.