"Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Believe me,
every man has his secret sorrows,
which the world knows not;
and oftentimes we call a man cold,
when he is only sad."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"All the means of action..
the shapeless masses..
the materials.. lie everywhere about us.
What we need is the celestial fire to change
the flintinto the transparent crystal,
bright and clear. That fire is genius."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Art is a revelation of man;
and not merely that,
but likewise the revelation of nature,
speaking through man."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Sit in reverie and watch
the changing color
of the waves that break upon
the idle seashore of the mind."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Music is the universal language of mankind...
poetry their universal pastime and delight."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow