“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Intelligence
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
LoveAll Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.”
Strength“Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
Freedom“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Sympathy“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.”
Life“Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.”
Nature“People demand freedom only when they have no power.”
Freedom“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
Strength“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.”
Best“Resolve and thou art free.”
Art“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Music“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
History“Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
Trust“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”
Religion“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.”
Fear“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Learning“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.”
Age“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”
Love“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Great“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
Art