He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Self-respect]

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Self-sacrifice]

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Service]

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Simplicity]

You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Sincerity]

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Socializing and Socialism]

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Solitude]

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Studying]

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Success]

Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Suffering]

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Thoughts and Thinking]

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Time and Time Management]

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Tomorrow]

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Victory]

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Vision]

The human voice is the organ of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Voice]

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Voice]

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Passion]

All things come round to him who will but wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Patience]

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - [Patience]