Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no Death! What seems so is transition.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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.

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

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

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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.