Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

• It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Order, Lovers

• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Book, Glowing

• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funny, Reading, Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

• I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Lovers, Book Lover

• Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Book, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.193

• I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

• Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Character, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.37

• There are two angels that attend unseen
  Each one of us, and in great books record
  Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
  The good ones, after every action closes
  His volume, and ascends with it to God.
  The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
  Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
  The record of the action fades away,
  And leaves a line of white across the page.
  Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
  It cannot be recalled. It is already
  Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
  The rest is yours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Believe, Sunset

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.388

• There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

• Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh: And Other Pieces”, p.364

• My Book and Heart Shall never part.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Heart, Parting

• I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Book, Thinking

• I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Doe, Voyages

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press

• Books are sepulchres of thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song”, p.25

• The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Tongue, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.191

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