Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes about Character

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Perfection, Simplicity

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Leadership, Work, Character

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Character, Personality, Triumph

'The Poets' (1876)

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Beautiful, Character

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing, Character, Easy

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.19

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spring, Character, Autumn

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