Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. 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.
Every human heart is human.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart, the secret anniversaries of the heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.