We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Why don't you speak for yourself John?

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is already the Past.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow;But that, ah! That was long ago. How far, since then, the ocean streams Have swept us from that land of dreams, That land of fiction and of truth, The lost Atlantis of our youth! Whither, ah, whither? Aren't these The tempest-haunted Arcades, Where sea-gulls scream, and breakers roar, And wreck and sea-weed line the shore? Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle! Here in thy harbors for a while We lower our sails; a while we rest From the unending, endless quest.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! Be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow