Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThinkers

Abuse is indelible. While a torn jacket is soon mended, hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Architecture is one who builds his great heart into his sculptured stones.

Criticism is that which draws its strength from the weaknesses of the thing criticized.

Generations is an endless cycle of youth wrenching the sceptre from old age and seting the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

The Grave is the footprint of angels.

The Great man's life reminds us that we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Happiness's rays are like those of light, colorless when unbroken.

Hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.