Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity’s mind and were willing to reveal it.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.