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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(1807 – 1882) An American poet, professor and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

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.

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

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.